Figure 1.-- Here we see a group from Farmington, New Hampshire visiting Washington, D.C. We have the town, but are unsure about the name of the school, perhapsthe Farmingtom school. The portrait is a cabinet card. We re not sure just what the group here is. Farmington was a small town with a few thousand residents. We doubt if they had a highschool. There may have been more than one elementary school, meaning schools with classes from 1st through the 8th grade. This was normal for small towns without high school or rural schools. The children here may be a graduating class of the 8th graders. There are, however, many adults wuth them which seems unusual for a class trip.

Here we see a group from Farmington, New Hampshire visiting Washington, D.C. We have the town, but are unsure about the name of the school, perhapsthe Farmingtom school. The portrait is a cabinet card. We re not sure just what the group here is. Farmington was a small town with a few thousand residents. We doubt if they had a highschool. There may have been more than one elementary school, meaning schools with classes from 1st through the 8th grade. This was normal for small towns without high school or rural schools. The children here may be a graduating class of the 8th graders. There are, however, many adults wuth them which seems unusual for a class trip. The children only slightly out number the adults. They certainly were a well chaperoned group. Also the children seem very well dressed. The boys wear mostly flat caps, but we see a few dress peaked caps (what the British call school caps) with more rounded crowns. They all wearsuits, nostly with dounle-breasted jackets. All that we can see wear knickers with black long stockings and high-top shoes. The girls wear elaborate wide-brimed hats with hairbows. Normally girls had to choose between the two, but here hey have move the hairbows down to the noe of their necks. They all wear dresses, bur cibere by jackets and overcoats. Like the boys they wear black long stockings and hifgh top shoes. The portrait is undated. The dealer suggests 1919. It cerainly was taken in the 1910s, we might have guessed a little earlier earlier in the decade.

We were not entirely sure just what kind of group this was, but decided on a school because the children all look to be the same age, about 13 years old which is the age of graduation from elementary schools at the time. But the fact that so many adults are involved and the children are so well dressed (meaning from well-to-do families) made us wonder. A reader writes, "My guess is that these are rather wealthy people to make a class trip in 1919 which would have been very expensive (also the boy in front row to 2nd to our left seems to be wearing a beret and gloves). I suspect it maybe a private school or some other event maybe church related for so many adults to be included." The one boy is not wearing a beret. Boys that age in America did not wear berets, but rather a peaked cap with a smll peak (bill). Even so our reader makes good point. This probanly is not a public school, but we are still unsure as to what the group was. His suggestion avout a private school or church group are good suggestiona.

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