This photograph was taken somewhere in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. This class photo is full of interesting faces. Taken circa early 1900s. From my glass negative collection.
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This photograph was taken somewhere in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. This class photo is full of interesting faces. Taken circa early 1900s. From my glass negative collection.
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I always wondered why nobody smiles in pictures from this era. I have picture of my great great grandmother from the 1870s and the same thing.
The girl in the dark dress upper left is the only one smiling. Life was rough back then…
It has to be before 1912, when the smile was invented.
Damn, life must’ve been tough back then, all those six year olds have middle aged faces.
Where are all the kids with genetic glandular problems?
Sun in your eyes will make you scowl too. Cool picture.
How many do you have in your collection? Also, where did you find them? Have you ever done an exhibit? I’m obsessed with old pics so I love your posts sharing these.
hmm that is odd, not a smile to be seen, just pissed off and angry faces, which would indicate it was before high speed Kodak film was invented, but not seeing any movement blurs either.
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before Kodak high speed film was developed, pictures took about 7 mins of exposure, so you would have to pose, take a picture, and not move for 7 mins, this is why most older photographs everyone is pissed off.
Not entirely sure why but this time in history just fascinates me.
They were told that after the photo they had to return to the coal mine.
Is the little girl in the center demon possessed?
3rd from the right at the end of recess.
Mat Cauthon would fit in well with the lads in front.
Bottom right. Nick Offerman?
I noticed:
2 girls in the center row have on the same dress and same hairstyle. They are probably sisters.
Girl on the second row, 5th from right and the girl on second row 3rd from left have on same dress and resemble each other are probably sisters as well.
They all have such a look of despair.
Everyone in that picture is dead now.
When you’re fed up with life before you even hit the 3rd grade.
Ten minutes after the photo was taken Little Lord Fauntletroy AKA Percy Snodgrass (row1, 3rd from right) was savagely beaten by the O’Malley boys (row 1, 2nd and 1st from right)
Parents of half the boys in class: “Son, you WILL wear the fancy neck ruffle grandma knitted for you on class photo day — or else the belt!”
Ah, the good old days… such happy memories.
THAT does not seem like a fun place to be
You could replace all the faces in the picture with the ones from “american gothic” and nobody would notice. It’s amazing!
Are the boys wearing leggings?
The kid to the left of the teacher and the kid on the top left may look 25-35 but they are the only ones who don’t appear to have ridden for three days across the desert without water to be in the photo.
good god of karen’s…………..
Might be the first time any of the kids were photographed.
front row, the boy 4th from the left.
Looks JUST LIKE ME, when I was 5-ish.
Some damn hard living in those eyes. Damn hard. And the kid in the plaid top row! Or the possessed little girl in the center. I hope she’s happier off camera.
Dude I’m convinced people in the past were just uglier
They all look like someone told them the camera is going to steal their souls right before this was taken. They look like they’re not sure if it was a joke or not.
They look like they already knew the depression was coming.
I think this is the early 1900s version of who wore it better (2nd row, 4th and 6th from the left).
Wonder why so many furrowed brows.
That class looks like it would just break any teacher.
Children of the Corn.
That poor bastard in the front with his collar starched to hell. I bet his mom was so proud, but damn.
That teacher was probably 17, she looks so young.
I’m not so sure the front row agreed with their pose…
*anywhere in New Jersey or Pennsylvania
Oh man, great picture.
Not sure what the psychopath on the top left did, but she sure seems pleased with herself. The others do not seem as amused.
Girl in last row, far left, is 45 years old.
Wretched looking cast
No one smiled for photos back then, did they?
My great-grandmother was a schoolteacher in NJ around this time… this is not her but we have a nearly identical photo of her with her class. She lived to be 103 and was an AWESOME person.
I count exactly one smile