One-room school

Great photograph Diane,eddie,

Thank you, I'm fond of it!

Very moving and precious memory despite the boys boycotts LOL

I'll be is South Dakota this summer actually.

Merci, Leopold! Stop and say hello to my grandpa's old ranch. ;-b

School photos, what a lovely memory!

No professional photographers out there in the middle of nowhere! Thank you, Gudrun.

Old yellowed school photos are so interesting and a great record.

I think so, too. I love seeing what kids wore, their expressions... thank you!

Lovely!

Hi, Marta, thank you!

Lovely old photos Diane.

Many thanks, I'm so fond of them.

A good picture for the family album !

Indeed it is, Patrick! Merci.

I LOVE these memories so much!
They're precious!
..... about the missing boys in the photo: perhaps in 1930s there weren't mixed classes, were there?
This remark may look silly;-) BUT here in Italy I don' think there were at those times.I must find out!! :-)
ciao Diane!

Certainly mixed schools weren't common after the age of 7, in England, at least wherever I was at school - and it was the state system, not private.

Grazie, Bea. Oh yes, definitely mixed, except for private Catholic schools. This is WAY out in the prairie and most of the schools were only one room serving families for many miles around. A vast landscape, which the kids had to travel on horses or in a horse-drawn buggy driven by an older kid.

All were mixed here, with the exception of Catholic schools. I believe there are also some fundamentalist Protestant ones that separate (Amish?) but I don't exactly keep up with those things. I don't think separating the sexes has been a common thing in the US, in general. Building separate accommodations would have been impractical way out there in ranchland, anyway.

Looks like they have made a snowbaby and are very proud of the result.

Oh - ha! It does!

I tried to see if I could pick her out based on the inset picture before I read the caption ... and yeah. That smile never changed.

Aw, how sweet of you! Nope, not a bit. Thanks, Clint.

it's a nice souvenir .

Oui, Sylvain! I love it. Thank you.

I used to have some school class photos displayed at public level. One day I noticed that as a group they were my most viewed photos and that the identifiable viewers were middle-aged men with a risque/off-colour images in their public display. I found this sickening. I then changed them all to private.

That is sickening! I suppose that happens everywhere, but I'm not so concerned about it that I will take them down.