Figure 1.--We have a photograph from PS 33 during 1950 of the 1st grade class. The children would have been 6 years old. Here we see the children playing with blocks, I think in their classroom. Or perhaps there was a playroom. The girls wear dresses. Many of the boys wear sweaters, suggestng that the photograph was taken in the Winter. Note that the girls wear suspender skirts, but the boys do not wear suspender pants--although many do wear suspenders.

Many American schools did not have names, but rather numbers like PS 64 in the Bronx here. PS means "Public School". The Bronx of course is a borough of New York City. I am not sure why New York did not name its schools. The same conventions were followed in the other boroughs as well. We do not know much about PS 33, except that it was operating in the 1950s. The school was located on Jerome Avene just off Fordham. We have a photograph from 1950 of the 1st grade class. The children would have been 6 years old. Here we see the children playing with blocks, I think in their classroom. Or perhaps there was a playroom. The girls wear dresses. Many of the boys wear sweaters, suggestng that the photograph was taken in the Winter. Note that the girls wear suspender skirts, but the boys do not wear suspender pants--although many do wear suspenders. The boys look to be wearing long pants, except one boy who wears short pants asnd kneesocks. Readers interested specificlly in New York schools can access websites specifically presenting class images from the various New York City boroughs.

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