Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait of girls doing rythemtic exercises was maked 'Fifth Year -- LHS'. The HS suggests a high school, but the girls look more like the fifth year of elementary (primary) school. I supose it is possible that the school was counting backward and they were 8th graders in a seconary school. While we do not know the full name of the school, we know where it was located--District No. 10 in Hampstead, New York. This is a city in Nassau County (western Long Island) close to New York City. We can see a teacher playing the piano while the girls exercize. It could be a kind of music/dance class more than a physical education class. It looks like they are in a classroom that has been coverted into an activity room. Notice that the girls have not changed into a gym costume (usualy middy blouse and bloomers) which also suggests that it is an elementary school. Only girls are involved. The portrait is not dated, but the mount suggests the 1900s.

This cabinet card portrait of girls doing rythemtic exercises was maked 'Fifth Year -- LHS'. The HS suggests a high school, but the girls look more like the fifth year of elementary (primary) school. I supose it is possible that the school was counting backward and they were 8th graders in a seconary school. While we do not know the full name of the school, we know where it was located--District No. 10 in Hampstead, New York. This is a city in Nassau County (western Long Island) close to New York City. We can see a teacher playing the piano while the girls exercize. It could be a kind of music/dance class more than a physical education class. It looks like they are in a classroom that has been coverted into an activity room. Notice that the girls have not changed into a gym costume (usualy middy blouse and bloomers) which also suggests that it is an elementary school. Only girls are involved. The portrait is not dated, but the mount suggests the 1900s.

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