American Schools of the Past – Object #5

First and second grade class portrait in Huntington, Arkansas, 1926

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<p>Photograph in a cardboard frame. There are four rows of students, 26 total, and their teacher standing on the steps in front of a brick building with a wooden door and windows on either side of the door. The children wear boots. The girls are in dresses with short haircuts.</p>

Teacher and first and second grade students posing for a class photograph on the steps outside their school in Huntington, Arkansas.

Questions:

How do we know this picture was taken in the past?

Describe the children in the photograph. What are they wearing? How is their dress similar to and different from what you wear to school?

Describe the teacher in the photograph. What is she wearing? How does she look similar to and different from your teacher?

What’s missing from this photograph that you have outside your school?

Does this look like your school? How is it the same?  How is it different?

Citations

Education Photograph Collection (UALR.PH.0011),UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture