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Charlotte School Children, appears to be a First Grade Class.
Physical Description: 3x5
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
One of 26 original Rosenwald schools built in Mecklenburg County, the Billingsville School opened in 1927, and is still in use today.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Rural schools looked quite different from those in the city. Small, one-to-two room schools dotted the landscape in Mecklenburg County. Usually there would be more than one school in a community so it would be within walking distance for the children living in the ten or more nearby farms.
Object Title: School Site
Description: This school construction site is on the south side of Bryant Farms Road.
Location: Charlotte (N.C.)
Object Title: School Building
Description: The photograph shows a second view of what is apparently an old school building on the south side of Highway 73.
Object Title: School Building
Description: The photograph shows what is apparently another old school building on the south side of Highway 73.
Object Title: School Building
Description: The photograph shows what is apparently an old school building on the south side of Highway 73.
Object Title: Rosenwald School
Description: A former Rosenwald school, transformed into a hardware store.
Location: Huntersville (N.C.)
1898 Class. School unknown. Seated in front: Ed Holton. First row/left to right: Rebecca Lindy, Jesse Caldwell, Unknown, Unknown, Grace Rigler, Edith Ward, Nell Culpepper, Ester Shannonhouse.
Children's clothes varied in fabric but not in design. Girls usually wore an apron or pinafore over their dresses to keep the latter clean. Boys wore knickers or shorts. All wore thick, heavy wool stockings.
