Unknown school photo, circa 1900
I'm posting this photo in the hopes that someone can identify it. It is a school photo, probably from around 1900, most likely from Springfield. What is unusual about this photo is that most of the students are identified on the back -- so maybe you will find your ancestor there. If you do, I can send you a large electronic copy which you can have printed out at a photo printer like CVS or Walgreens.
Unfortunately the backing board of the photo is ripped, and the missing piece presumably identified the school and year, however it is labeled as Grade 7. Many of the names are Irish, which should provide a clue as to the school's neighborhood. The names are written in small cursive letters, so I may misspell some of the names.
Here are the student names:
Back Row
Edward Kieley
Livingston Gardiner
Frank Berthiaume
Arnold Whitehome
Ernest Haynes
Edna Lewis
Unknown (initials R.G.)
Helen Murray
Blanche Wood
Catherine Kelleher
Middle Row
Viola LaRiviere
Unknown
Irene Harmon
Marion Rich
Florence Curtis
Unknown (initials R.T.)
Unknown (initials R.M.)
Unknown (initials L.H.)
Elsie Rich
Grace Smith
Ruth Rivers
Marion Lawton
Unknown (initials M.R.)
Front Row
Unknown
Elmer Beaudry
Raymond Moore
William Walsh
William Riley
Unknown (initials W.G.)
Edward Chapin
Willard Fowler
Russell Grout
You can click on the photo to make it fill your screen, and click on the expansion button to see it even larger to see more detail.
Names...
After I saw your posting in the Masslive Nostalgia forum, I did a search in Ancestry.com, some of these names came up in the 1910 Census or WW1 Draft Registrations... the birth years are not exact, just based on their age from the 1910 Census
Elmer Beaudry, born 1893, living in Quincy St
Edward Kieley, born 1889, Wellington St
Livingston Gardner, born 1891, Hancock St
Ernest Haynes, born 1892, Green St
Edward Chapin, born 1894, State St
I hope this helps.
Barrows school
Thanks, that helps quite a bit. Those streets are pretty close to where the Barrows school was. Someone else in the Nostalgia forum posted that they thought it could be Barrows school too. Barrows had rounded windows as the photo suggests.
I'll keep digging. If Google indexes my list, maybe someone searching for their ancestors will stumble upon it.
Barrows School
Looked at an old Real Photo postcard from 1907. I had and can see that the picture of the children you have was taken at Barrows School. The key is the decoration around the windows in the picture.
Thanks for the ID!
Super! Thanks for the help.
Do you know when Barrows was torn down?
unknown school photo
I attended Sacred Heart School in Springfield, and can tell you that picture looks like it was taken there. They allowed intergrated students there, for one, second, the structure in the background looks like the old entrance near Everett Street. By the way the students were dressed, it seems that the students were made to dress formally. Sacred Heart only became a uniformed parochial school in the early '80's.
That is NOT Sacred Heart
That is NOT Sacred Heart School. Especially not the Everett St side entrance. I lived right next door to the convent on Everett. I attended there from 1959 to 1968 and wore a uniform daily for all those years. My sisters continued through HS, and they wore uniforms too. Also, it was labeled "grade seven" The grades were not mingled with boys and girls until the fifies. The boys and girls even had their own entrance.
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