Figure 1.-- This drawing reportedly illustrates a fire drill in the 1870s. We are not sure if it represents an actual school and if so what school. |
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Fire is an ever present danger in croded buildings and of course children are a special concern. Thus care has to be taken so that the saff and the children know how to react in case of a fire. Schools are required. We have begun to collect some images here, but so far have very few actual images. The image here is inteesting, on part because it represents a school from the 1870s when we have relitevely few images. Note that the boys are almost all wearing long pants, but a few boys are wearing keepants which were becoming more commoin in the 1870s. We are not sure just how to interpret this image. It certainly is a large school. We rather suspect that in the 1870s there weren't that many schools this large. The detail leads one to believe that it was a depiction of an actual school. Unfortunately we do not kbnow the name of the school.
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