Individual Swiss School: Hemelshausen School

Figure 1.--This class portrait was taken at the Hemelshausen School in Hinwil, Switzerland, a village close to Zurich. This is a third-grade class, which means that the children would be about eight years old, although the boy sitting on the ground on the extreme left looks more like nine or ten to me. The young teacher standing at the back and wearing horn-rimmed glasses is Herr Widmer.

This class portrait was taken at the Hemelshausen School in Hinwil, Switzerland, a village close to Zurich. This is a third-grade class, which means that the children would be about eight years old, although the boy sitting on the ground on the extreme left looks more like nine or ten to me. The young teacher standing at the back and wearing horn-rimmed glasses is Herr Widmer. The date of the photo is 25 November 1938 just before World War II started. The boys are wearing mostly sweaters with their short trousers. All the children are wearing long stockings since it is a chilly fall day (no leaves on the trees outside the school). Two of the boys in the front row and two others in the second row are wearing short trousers suits with matching jackets and short pants. The older-looking heavy-set boy sitting at the extreme left is a bit more dressed up than the others with a shirt, sweater and necktie under his jacket. All the children wear long woolen stockings with Strapsleibchen. Some of the stockings are black, but the newer fashion for brown stockings is already observable. Notice the pigtail hairstyle of many of the girls, with white ribbon bows at the ends. One of the girls wears a halter style skirt over her pullover. One boy in the second row on the right wears a plaid pullover with a collar. Some of the sweaters have fronts that button from the middle chest to the neck.

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