Figure--This looks like a James Campbell High School class, probabkly a 9th grade class, many youth about 1 years ild. The boys wear jnicker suits. The girls white blouses, mostly middy blouses abd scarves. Both boys a girls wear black long stockings. The portrait is not dated, but was probsnly taken about 1915.

While we do not know much about the school, the availble images do priovide information on schoolwear. We have found several images from the 1910s. The images show the boys wearing knickers suits with black long stockings, at least the younger boys we can see at the front. Knickers were standard for Ametrican boys in the 1910s. The girls also wore black long stockings. The younger boys would be 9th graders, meaning boys about 14 years old. The girls wear middy blouses and scarves. It all looks rather like uniforms. This was not very common at American High Schools. It was probably more like a dress code requiring the boys to wear suits with no special instructions, although some of the portraits show mostly dark suits. We are not sure about the pants. Even older boys might wear knickers, or knee pants as were commion in the 1900s decade. By the 1910s, most older teens were wearing long pants, but this varied from family to family. Unfortinstely, with the portraits we have, the older boys are at the back so we don't get to see the pants that they are wearing. The middy blouses do look rather like a uniform, but there are differences and some of the girls wear regular blouses. And hair bows varied widely. We are not sure that was the everyday uniform or just for the school portrait. The images show a range of ages, so we are not sure that they are class groups. Unfortunstely there is no informastion accomopanying the images. One images is dated to 1916 and because all the portraits we have found show similar clothing, the portraits all seem to date to the 1910s.

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