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Unidentified American School (early-1880s)


Figure 1.--Here we have a school portrait without any identufying information. It is a kind of cabinet card, but there is no studio imprint or writing on the back. The clothing we think fairly certainly suggests that this class portrait was taken in the late-1870s or early-80s. We say that because many of the boys are wearing long knee pants or even long trousers. CDVs were more common in the 60s and knee-length knee pants in the 90s. Also we do not see any Fauntleroy-like collars or bows. The boys seem to have small collars and mostly suit jackets with high lapels. Thus the early-80s seems most likely.

Here we have a school portrait without any identufying information. It is a kind of cabinet card, but there is no studio imprint or writing on the back. The clothing we think fairly certainly suggests that this class portrait was taken in the 1870s or 80s. We say that because many of the boys are wearing long knee pants or even long trousers. CDVs were more common in the 60s and knee-length knee pants in the 90s. Also we do not see any Fauntleroy-like collars or bows. The boys seem to have small collars and mostly suit jackets with high lapels. Thus the early-80s seems most likely. Boys in rural areas might wear long pants or older styled knee pants, but this we think is clearly a school, perhaps even a private school, in a fashionable city. We think it is a private schools because it is an all boys school and the boys are dressed so smartly. We load these unidentified images in part because we welcome reader comments to help date them.







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