1896 Photograph of Carlyle School Class with American Flag

Carlyle, Children, school

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1896 photograph of a high school class in what is likely Carlyle, Illinois. Approximately 58 children sit in rows in front of a brick building with two windows on the building with a large American flag hanging behind the children.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• education

September 17, 1896

English

• Photograph

• jpg
• Black and white photographic print

photo

8.5 x 7 [inches]

• 1890s
• Carlyle, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-047