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school uniform schoolwear : United States -- East Orange, New Jersey parochial school
Unidentified East Orange New Jersey Parochial School (1921)
Figure 1.--his cabinet card portrait looks to be parochial school because of the priest in the portait. He is probably the principal. The school is no named, but we believe it was located in East Orange, New Jersey because that bis where ine if the students lived--Helen R. Zieglar. The portarit was saved by her parents which provided the 1921 date on the back of the card. otice the school in the background. It looks more like a house than a school whichn speaks to the fact that the Catholic schools were not as well funded as the public schools which were supported by taxes.
This cabinet card portrait looks to be parochial school because of the priest in the portait (figure 1). He is probably the principal. The school is no named, but we believe it was located in East Orange, New Jersey because that is where one of the students lived--Helen R. Zieglar. The portarit was saved by her parents which provided the 1921 date on the back of the card. She was born in 1915 which means that this is probanly a 1st grade class we are looking at . We mostly see girl's fashions as they are placed in the front. Quite a few are wearing large hairbows, but not as many as in the 1910s. The girls are wearing dresses, only one sailor dress and blouses and skirts. One girl wears a white middy blouse and skirt. Interestingly, three of the boys are wearing sailor suits, a summer and two winter suits. We had thought that sailor styles were more common for the girls by this time. One boy had an Eton collar. Another looks to be wearing a tunic, but we are not certain. It is difficult to make out just what the other boys are wearing. But only one of these 1st graders wears the white shirt and tie that the older boys were wearing at this school. We also have a portrait of Helen's class a few years later, probably about 1925.
