School Days: An Unknown School Portrait, Perhaps in Pittsburgh PA

Unknown Helbling or Geir in this photo.

Helbling Family (Click for Family Tree)

As children across America are already sitting at school desks or getting their supplies ready to start a new year of learning, here is a photo that was in with the Helbling-Geier unknown family photos we have recently posted. The above is obviously a school photo, but the dear little girl in the front who was holding the sign apparently turned it around- there is no identification of the school or year that we can see on her tablet!

It is interesting to see a child of color in the photo, and along with the dress, this  photo is most likely post CivilWar, and more likely 1880s or later. The doors of the building look so tall- perhaps this was a church school?

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Notes, Sources, and References: 

  1. Helbling-Geier family photo shared by cousin Mary Lou. Thank you!

 

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