Figure 1.--This CDV has no accomaonying information. We suspect that the photograph dates to the 1860s, but the early-70s is possible. We know it is a Scottish school because the boys wear Scottish bonnets and a few wear kilts, although not tartan kilts. We believe it is a small private prep school because of the non-European boy. He is described as a black boy on the back of the CDV, but we suspect he is Indian, possibly a young royal from a princely state. The idea of a preparatory or prep school was still relatively new at the time. Prep meant preapring younger boys for the public schools--meaning elite private boarding schools, primnarily seconday schools.

This CDV has no accomaonying information. We suspect that the photograph dates to the 1860s, but the early-70s is possible. We know it is a Scottish school because the boys wear Scottish bonnets and a few wear kilts, although not tartan kilts. We believe it is a small private prep school because of the non-European boy. He is described as a black boy on the back of the CDV, but we suspect he is Indian, possibly a young royal from a princely state. The idea of a preparatory or prep school was still relatively new at the time. Prep meant preapring younger boys for the public schools--meaning elite private boarding schools, primnarily seconday schools. There is no uniform, but the boys all wear suits. There are different suits. Most of the youngr boys wear cut-away jackets, the older boys lapel jackets. Note the small collars. This is one reason we think the portrait was taken in the 1860s. A few of the boys wear kilts, the other boys wear both knee pants and long pants. Almpst all of the boys wear Scottlsh bonnets. We note both Glengarries and Balmorals. Notice the small poms on modst of the caps. This must have been a school rule. There is an age difference, it looks like boys 7-13 years old. Soi this is not a class, but perhaps the whole school. The boys were photographed in front of a wall so we do not get a glimpse of the school.

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