Lex Anteinternet: Western Newspaper Union: Pittsburg, Pa. Pupils of no. 1 grade, Miller School snipping up waste cloth from the Domestic Science Department for fracture pillows. September 25, 1918.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Western Newspaper Union: Pittsburg, Pa. Pupils of no. 1 grade, Miller School snipping up waste cloth from the Domestic Science Department for fracture pillows. September 25, 1918.

Note that this grade school class is integrated. Note too how short of resources things really were during World War One.

1 comment:

Pat, Marcus & Alexis said...: I hate to admit this, but this room bears a frighteningly familiar look to it really, and I was in grade school in the 1960s and 1970s.

Not exactly, but the older part of my elementary school, which had been built in the 1920s. . . and then added on to during the 1950s (with the 50s party being much nicer); well. . .; Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 8:07:00 AM MDT

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