Figure 1.--Here we have postcard-back school portrait of an unidentified school in Timisoara during 1934. It is a clearly public school, but we are not sure what kind of school it is. The children look to be about 13-years old. We are not entirely sure if these are the older children at a primary school or the younger children at a secondary school. The school is identified on the back of the postcard portrait. We can make out Timosoara, but not the other word. (Click HERE to see if you can make out the other word.) For some reason, most of the students are girls. We are not sure why that would be or how common it was. The girls all wear dresses or blouses and skirts. One girl wears a sailor dress. Two girls wear blouses with destinctive folk embroidery. The girls all have rather similar, plain short hair styles. Note there are no ringlets like you might find in an American school at the time. The boys are variously dressed. Half of the boysare wear suit jackets. We see shorts and sweters. They wear both long pants and short pants with knee socks. Several have short-cropped hair. One boys wears a beret. Their lady teacher sitting in the middle seems very young. Notice the ball in front of one boy. We are not sure what sport it was used to play.

As in other countries, we hope to build a section on indidiual schools. At this time, however, all we have is a school portrait at a unidentified school in Timisoara during 1934. Timosoara is located in western Romania, in the Banat region. The Banat was an area of the Autro-Hungarian Empirte split between Serbia/Yugoslavia and Romania. It is a clearly public school, but we are not sure what kind of school it is. The children look to be about 13-years old. We are not entirely sure if these are the older children at a primary school or the younger children at a secondary school. The school is identified on the back of the postcard portrait. We can make out Timosoara, but not the other word. This was a coeducational class. That might suggest it was a primary school. Most secondary schools were single gender schools. For some reason, most of the students are girls. We are not sure why that would be or how common this was. Was it more common at the time for girls to pursue education beyond primary levels? These are questions we hope to pursue as we expand our school section. The girls all wear dresses or blouses and skirts. One girl wears a sailor dress. Two girls wear blouses with destinctive folk embroidery. The girls all have rather similar, plain short hair styles. Note there are no ringlets like you might find in an American school at the time. The boys are variously dressed. Half of the boys are wear suit jackets. We see shorts and sweters. They wear both long pants and short pants with knee socks. Several have short-cropped hair. One boys wears a beret. Their lady teacher sitting in the middle seems very young. Perhaps our Romanian readers will be able to tell us more. The clothes and hair styles provide a good idea of popular styles in Romania during the 1930s, at least in urban areas. Timosoara was one of Romania's largest cities.

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