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Individual Italian Schools: San Lorenzo di Treia Village School (1951)

Italian school 1950s
Figure 1.-- This is a class photo taken in 1951 in San Lorenzo di Treia, a village in the mountains of central Italy, Marche region. We have a description of the children from the teacher, Anna Caltagirone. She remembers that the children belonged to sharecropper families. The second boy from left in the front row was barefoot because he didn't own any footwear. His mother explained to the teacher that because she had many children and couldn't afford footwear for everybody, chose to leave them all shoeless and use the money for more urgent things. An Italian reader tells us that the smocks were black. Later navy blue smocks appeared.

This is a class photo taken in 1951 in San Lorenzo di Treia, a village in the mountains of central Italy, Marche region. We have a description of the children from the teacher, Anna Caltagirone. She remembers that the children belonged to sharecropper families. The second boy from left in the front row was barefoot because he didn't own any footwear. His mother explained to the teacher that because she had many children and couldn't afford footwear for everybody, chose to leave them all shoeless and use the money for more urgent things. The boy doesn't look ashamed of that. On the other hand he never experienced a different situation. This actully was an indicator that economic conditions were improving. Even before the war, almost certainly children in the village would have been barefoot. And then Italy was devestated from Calabria north to the Po as the Allies drove upo the Peninsula (1943-45). The fact ght mot of the children have footwear is an indicator that the Italian Economic Miarcle is already reaching even isolated villages.






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