Figure 1.--Here we see a school in the Atlana, Georgia area. We don't think itb was in the city proper because it seems to be a one- or two- room school. Here we a class sice group in a city school, but is all the students at the school. Notice the wide age range. The portrait is undated, but the fashions and mount syuggests the 1900s decade, probably about 1905. Unusally the photographer has put up a tarp as a backdrop, but if you look at left you can get a glimpse of the school building. Normally the teachers want their building to be pictured. There is a good mix of all the different children's fashions popular at the time. The photographer was Hudson at the Edwards Gallery.

Location significantly affected schoolwear. When we talk about locations, there are two basic areas. First is the rural/urban divide. Second is the regional divide. Most Anericans still lived in rural areas, although the difference by the 1900s was narrowing. Boys tended to wear knee pants suitts to school. The younger boys might wear blousesc and knee pants,. Interestingly, the differences between rural and urban schools were mot as pronounced as they would become in the 1910s when overalls would become a virtual standard uniform at rural schools. We begin to see this change in substantial numbers by 1908. In the 1900s, most boys still dressed in knee oants or blouses and knee pants. This was the case in both urban and rural schools. For some reason, rural students were still dressing up for school. The girls did not wear overalls, but pinafores were common at some schools. There were at the same tinme also changes in urbn schools. City boys began wearing knickers rather than knee pants. The regional divide is much more complicated. The wealthiest areas in the 1900s decade were the niortheast abnd he iundustrial Mid-west. The poorest region was the South. This was due to the fact tht the South was the most rural region. Another factor was the system of Jim Crow racial segregation in the South. Thus we see large numbers of children going barefoot in the South. This was not the only place at the time where children were giung barefoot, butit was especially oroniunced in the south. Another major development is tha tPascific costal srates, esopecuially California began to emerge and an important force.

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