Individual U.S. Schools: Toughkenamon School (Pennsylvania)


Fifigure 1.-- This large format (8x10 in) cabinet card shows Toughkenamon School about 1892. That was the date on the back, but was estimted some time after the photograph was taken. It may have been taken a couple of years later, but was definitely taken in the 1890s. You can tell by the shoulder puff sleeves on the dresses. Toughkenamon was a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania.

This large format (8x10 in) cabinet card shows Toughkenamon School about 1892. That was the date on the back, but was estimted some time after the photograph was taken. It may have been taken a couple of years later, but was definitely taken in the 1890s. You can tell by the shoulder puff sleeves on the dresses. Toughkenamon was a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania. It was founded in the late-17th century and conflict with the Lenape native people was a foretaste of what was to come. The town never was very large and we suspect this was a portrait of the entire school. This was an outdoors photograph, but we don't get to see the school. It would have been a one or two room building. There seem to be more girls thn boys which was no unusual in farming ciommunities, the boys were neeed on the farm. On the right side of the photograph, you can see a little black boy. We are not sure he was a student as he looks quite young. The girls all wear fashinable dresses, some wiyh pinafores. We don't see hairbows. We do see a few what looks like tams. Notice they are worn at the same flat abgle. The boys all wear knee pants suits with long stockings with different collars and neckwear.








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