Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified group of children. All we know for sure is that the photograph was taken in 1886. The dealer assumed that it was a school portrait. This may well be, but there are other possibilities such a a sunday school, but you would have thought that at least one Bible might be seen. A school is probably the best guess, but there are some concerns here. First the building with its large porch does not look like a school. It also suggests a small tgown/rurl area. It could be some sort of private school which uses a private residence, but private schools were usually single gender schools. Second the age mix does not seem right for a school. The younger children are missing. Most of the children seem to fall into the 10-16 year age range. School or not, this seems the best place to archive the image. It provides a good clear example of popular fashions for boys and girls at the time. Most of the boys wear suits, but two younger boys wear some younger. It is a little difficult to tell, but we only see three youngr boys wearing knee pants. Notice that we do not see any large floppy bows or any Fauntleroy items. This suggests to us a small town/rural area where popular fshions took a while toreach..

Here we see an unidentified group of children. All we know for sure is that the photograph was taken in 1886. The dealer assumed that it was a school portrait. This may well be, but there are other possibilities such a a sunday school, but you would have thought that at least one Bible might be seen. A school is probably the best guess, but there are some concerns here. First the building with its large porch does not look like a school. It could be some sort of private school which uses a private residence, but private schools were usually single gender schools. Second the age mix does not seem right for a school. The younger children are missing. Most of the children seem to fall into the 10-16 year age range. School or not, this seems the best place to archive the image. It provides a good clear example of popular fashions for boys and girls at the time. Most of the boys wear suits, but two younger boys wear some younger. It is a little difficult to tell, but we only see three youngr boys wearing knee pants.

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