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The school goody cone custom was very widely observed in Germany. It is still is, but is not as common. As far as we can tell, almost all children in the 1920s and 30s got one of these cones. There are huge numbers of first day portraits. They show children both with and without these cones. But of course a portrait without a cone does not necesarily mean the child did not get one. More revealing are class portraits. We see quite a few class portraits with all the children holding a cone. The school had nothing to do with the cones, but did not discourage the practice. The children did bring the cones to school. Much less common are school portraits that show some of the children did not get cones. This must have happened to some extent, especially in the early-1930s with ther onset of the Depression. This must have been rather hard on the children who did not get them, but in the available portraits they do not seem all that disappointed.
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