1895 Photograph of Irishtown school children

Children, Irishtown

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1895 photograph of Irishtown School, Illinois, class photo of 1895. Approximately 35 children stand in staggered lines with one older man standing on the right back line. They are all standing in front of the side of a white building. All of the children are barefoot and are wearing dresses or shirts and trousers.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• education

Star photo.co Girard IL

September 26, 1895

English

• Photograph

• jpg
• Black and white photographic print

photo

7 x 8 [inches]

• 1890s, Irishtown Illinois

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