Group of School Children and Teachers, Hillsdale, Michigan, circa 1890
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This cabinet card shows three teachers and 44 students posing outdoors, perhaps outside the school. This was not a one-room school; the students are approximately the same age. Hillsdale, Michigan, a busy railroad town, had a graded school system. The boys wear shirts, suspenders, and jackets; girls wear pinafores or aprons over their dresses. The teachers wear high-necked, long-sleeve dresses with aprons.
This cabinet card shows three teachers and 44 students posing outdoors, perhaps outside the school. This was not a one-room school; the students are approximately the same age. Hillsdale, Michigan, a busy railroad town, had a graded school system. The boys wear shirts, suspenders, and jackets; girls wear pinafores or aprons over their dresses. The teachers wear high-necked, long-sleeve dresses with aprons.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
circa 1890
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
93.51.21
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.25 in
Width: 6.5 in
Inscriptions
verso, printed: J. A. Rose, Photographer Hillsdale, Mich.
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