This cabinet card school portrait shows younger children at the Hamburg, Iowa elementary school. The studio imprint is hard to read, but looks something like Loresseor's in Hamburg. The card mount is 9 x 7" with image at 5 1/2 x 4." Written on the back is "2nd Grade, Hamburg, Iowa. Mrs. Crowder--teacher. 8 years old. Doris Hurst Wattenbarger." On the image is an arrow drawn to a girl in the second to back row and marked 'Me'--see pen line. According to Census records Doris was born in 1901 so this would probably be the winter of 1908-09 when the photo was taken. We would guess January or February 1909. The greyed olive green card was popular at the time. The boys wear knickers rathar than knee pnts showing how quickly knickers replaced knee pants. It gets cold in Iowa during the winter as you can see. The children had their portrait taken outside because of the lighting. As a result the portrait gives us a good idea about winter clothing the children wore at the time, both headwear and coats. This is something we do not see in most school portraits. Everyone has some type of headwear. The boys wore caps with ear flaps. Notice that flat caps were not yet standard. The girls wore all kinds of interesting winter hats. Three girls had muffs. The 1900s is the last decade we see many muffs. The teacher holds a sign, 'King's Jewels'. We are not sure what that meant. Could it be a school play?
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