Figure 1.--Here we see a small coed Scottish class, we think in the 1880s. The studio was Wohlgemuth & Co in Glasgow. We suspect, however that the school was not in Glasgow, one of Scotlands's major cties. City schools erre more likely to have large classes. This is more likely a village school. We thought it might be a private school as the head master looks so dapper But the coed class looks more like a village school. One boys wears a kilt outfit. That night suggest a private school, but boys in the Highlands (not Glasgow) did wear kilts in village school. The other boys mostly wear suits. Many oif the girls wear pimnafores.

We have found some 19th century Scottish school images. Not very many, but we have found some. Scotland is a small country and we have difficulty finding needed images from small countries to assess fahion trends. And many of the ones we have found have no descriptive information. As far as we can tell, the images we have found date to the 1880s and 90s. Most are not dated. We can not always differentiate between these decacdes, but what we have found so far seem to come from these two decades. So we have to our best to date the images and to figure out what type of school. The school on the previous page looks to be a state primary school. The portrait is not dated, but the mount and the clothes shown suggest the late-1870s or early-80s. The school here looks like it might be a small private school, probably taken in the 1880s (figure 1). Mixing boys and girls at a private school would have been unusual, especially at private schools at the time. The studio was Wohlgemuth & Co in Glasgow. We suspect, however that the school was not in Glasgow, one of Scotlands's major cties. City schools erre more likely to have large classes. This is more likely a village school. We thought it might be a private school as the head master looks so dapper But the coed class looks more like a village school. One boys wears a kilt outfit. That night suggest a private school, but boys in the Highlands (not Glasgow) did wear kilts in village school. The other boys mostly wear suits. Many oif the girls wear pinafores.

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