Colchester, Illinois, 1896

Grades 1-3. Is it possible there was only one teacher? My grandfather is a first-grader and his brother is a third-grader. I assume the little blue marks are to identify my kinfolk.

Click on the picture to get a good look at the fashions. A couple of those little girls left of center in the next-to-last row look like something out of Little Women. Note the barefoot boys.