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A HBC reader has sent us some images frim the village school at "San Giorgio della Richinvelda", a village in North Italy. San Giorgio della Richinvelda is a small village in the north-eastern part of Italy. The images show the school beginning at the turn of the century. These include school portraits from 1901, 1921, and 1933. There apparently were separate schools for boys and girls. The boys in 1901 wore suits with long pants. Most were barefoot. The boys by the 1920s are wearing short pants and shoes are more common. We do not see many children, with boys or girls, weraring smocks.
"San Giorgio della Richinvelda", a village in North Italy. San Giorgio della Richinvelda is a small village in the north-eastern part of Italy. San Giorgio lies 110 km from Venice. It is a flat area (86 meters above sea level), with a surface of 48 sq/km. It has now a total population of about 4,500 inhabitants.
The available images show the school at different periods beginning at the turn of the century.
We note boys at the school in 1901 (figure 1). The portrait is all boys. They all look to be wearing suit jackets and long pants, but most are barefoot. We were a little surprised to see so many boys this age wearing long pants. At the time, kneepsants were commonly worn by boys, even boys older thasn the ones seen here in schools throughout Europe and North America. The long pants reflect the rural character of the school. Boys in city schools would have been more likely to wear kneepants.
We see the children at the school in 1921, just a few years after Woirld war I. We get a good view of the school in the background. The children in 1921 are dressed more informally than was the case in 1901. We are confused because there are far fewer children than in 1901 even though the photograph includes both boys and girls. This must be only part of the school. We are unsure just how common coeducation was in Italy. We think that in 1921, this may have been largely a function of thecsmall size of the school.
Here we see an image from the school in 1933. This looks to be some of the older children at the school. We see mostly boys, but there are some girls. Many of the boys wear suit jackets. They all seem to be wearing short pants. One boy is barefoot. The others have shoes. One boy looks to be wearing a smock with a floppy bow. We think that smocks were commonly woirn by Italian school children in the 1930s. Apparently this varied widely from school to school. Here we do not yet have a good idea as to what affected the use of smocks.
Available images before World War I show only boys at the school. Until after World war I, it was common to teach boys and girls separately. Small villages for practical reasons might have schools with both boys and girls, but villages above a certain size would have separate classes for boys and girls. We are not sure if there was a separate girls school at San Giorgio or if boys and girls were simplly kept separate at the same school. Even after World wear I, gender separation was still common. Only after World War II did Italy embrace coeducation.
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