Young Edwardian school girl

Maker
Thomas Easton
Production date
Circa 1907
 Description
Portrait of a young Edwardian girl in her school wear of (probably) navy blue serge. She has a fashionable large collar attached to a round neckline. She is posed doing her lessons on a slate.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Easton, Thomas, Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Circa 1907
Subject notes
Paper was expensive so pupils wrote on slates - a rectangular piece of slate held in a wooden frame. They wrote with slate pencils and of course the slate could be wiped clean and reused. Their use was widespread at this time and it continued in many rural areas until the 1950s.
Accession number
P11612

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