Figure 1.-- Here we see a cabinet card portrait of the 1st and 2nd graders at St. Mary's Catholic School in Avilla, Indiana. They would be 6-8 yeas old. Avilla is located in a farming area of northeastern Indiana, north of Fort Wayne. St. Mary's must have been a small school. This is a rather small group even though it is two grades put together. Catholic schools usually had loarger class sizes than public schools.

Here we see a cabinet card portrait of the 1st and 2nd graders at St. Mary's Catholic School in Avilla, Indiana. They would be 6-8 yeas old. Avilla is located in a farming area of northeastern Indiana, north of Fort Wayne. St. Mary's must have been a small school. This is a rather small group even though it is two grades put together. Catholic schools usually had loarger class sizes than public schools. They were financed by the diocese and parents with no government support which is an expensive proposition. What we do not know is just when the portrait was taken. The mount suggests the 1900s, but as some of the children seem to be wearing knickers, we believe the photograph was probably taken in the very-early the early-1910s. This is a little difficult to figure out because it is difficult to tell if the boys are wearing knee pats or knickers, that is a very helful way of differentiating 1900s and 10s photograohs. We do not see many American boys wearing knickers until about 1908. All the hair bows the girls are wearing suggest the 1910s. Hairs bows were worn in the 1900s, but we mostly see all the girls wearing them in a class during the 1910s. The boys are dressed warmly with suit jackets or sweaters. One boy wears a sailor suit. The girls wear winter coats and hair biows. They all are wearing long stockings.

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