Figure 1.-- Here we have a portrait from an unidentified school in Maine in 1888. It looks to be an older primary school class. Many of the children are holding slates on which they have written their names, but few or clear enough to be made out. This may have been intended not only for identification, but to show off their caligraphy. The school is a substantial brick building. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the class.

Here we have a portrait from an unidentified school in Maine in 1888. It looks to be an older primary school class. Many of the children are holding slates on which they have written their names, but few or clear enough to be made out. This may have been intended not only for identification, but to show off their caligraphy. The school is a substantial brick building. This is only one class, we would guess children about 10 years old, meaning 5th graders, so there were several different classes. We would guess at least six and probably eight classes. Many primary schools had 8 year programs and another less clear class portait shows children who look to be about 13 years old or 8th graders. All of the boys here wear suits. The few boys we can see are wearing long pants. Unfortunalely the type of pants most of h boys are wearing is obscured. We suspect boys this age in big cities were more commonly wearing knee pants in 1888, but this was not the case in rural areas and towns away from the major cities. The girls all wear dresses, mny with crisp white pinafores. The boys all have short hair. One boy has close-cropped hair. The girls mostly have long hair. we notice one girl with short hair who looks like a boy, but as she wears a pinafore, she must be a girl. There are three adults, a young woman and two men. One must be the classroom teacher and one must be the principal. We are not sure ho the other man is.

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