Catherine Matheson

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Group of school teachers? This clever photo of Catherine Matheson and friends was taken in Manhattan New York in the 1890s. Catherine was a school teacher and the owner of the photo believes that the others might be teachers as well. Unfortunately, all that is known are their first names. If you have a Marion, Martha or Doris who lived and taught in Manhattan around 1890 in your family tree perhaps this is your ancestor!

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Carol Wheeler

Fabulous photo 👍

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Sapphiire Skyy

Good teacher with morals I bet

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Linda M. Gigliotti

Female teachers had to be upright. The males could do whatever they liked. Even in the early 1900s female teachers could only work til they were married. Imagine.

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Terri Allen

Great photo.

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Sandra Soderer

Marion and Doris are German Names

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Kathrin Begemann

And Martha.

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Stevie Starr

That must have theeee hairstyle of the times.

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Celeste Williams

Alot of adult ladies of the late Victorian and Edwardian era wore their hair up as adults and the children wore their hair down with pretty ribbons and lace ☺ x

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Diane Orrvar Stone

Great picture!

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Carol Bostock

Awesome picture

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Nadine Heald

Ladies of le Pompadour !! sweet ladies....

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Liselott Thoresson

Beautiful picture😄

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Fruit Tingles

I wonder what life as a woman teacher would have been like way back the.

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Jo Vaughn-Hutson

Not easy! Had a few great aunt's that were teacher's in those years.

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Jeanne Lange

I love this photograph. Just lovely.

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Kimberley A Smith-Cooper

But they were more revered and respected back then!

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Clare McCormack

I love this extraordinary photo

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Jill Sutton

Beautiful young teachers

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Alice Rose

Love the way they are posed for this photo!

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Dario Biterski

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Emma McCourt

Do we think they'd fit in with a group of young teachers today? Swigging pinot grigio and swearing a lot might not come quite as naturally to them! Thanks for sharing this with us.

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Peggy Hauser

Loved that Gibson hairstyle.

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Teri Johnston Pilkey

My Grandmother taught on a one room schoolhouse at Port Madison ( WA )

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Peggy Guy

The neck ties, the hair styles, etc. great photo!

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Judy Dryden

From her expression, the third one down might know what Pinot Grigio tastes like, lol! Got some spunk to her, I think.

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Samantha Jean Lonergan-Mitchell

I feel the same about the third one up! Aha

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Willy Dereany

Looks like family

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Jennifer Anderson

underpaid and overworked, no equal pay for women back then, would be interesting to see what they were paid as well..

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Carole Brooks Fowler

lovely young ladies.

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Pierre Lagarde

I see two sisters

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Tavi Baker

Top & bottom?

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Pierre Lagarde

Yes >>?

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Jeanne Lange

i love

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Jeff Cicotte

Sandy Chumley Cicotte

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Kimberley A Smith-Cooper

Amazing and beautiful

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Lena Gargano-Reddy

In this photo you can see by the way they dressed and the look in their eyes that are teachers not nowadays you don't know who the teacher is or who the student is

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Katy Troyano

Miriam Duncanson

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Ronny R. Alders

Teachers for sure! No doubt about it. What a great picture!

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Teresa Regenold

Very pretty

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Peggy Beegle

They were not allowed to marry!

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Teresa Montgomery

Lovely picture!!

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Denise Cronin

MaryBeth were there teachers in the family before you?

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Rose Gasak

Beautiful yet serious looking teachers

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Joy Midkiff Alba

They look like kittens from the vintage Kittens have Mittens books with their hair and bows. :)

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Ambra Evans

here's a pic of my great-grandfather's school room

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Lena Gargano-Reddy

Love the old fashion wood heater and how teachers table is set for lunch or maybe afternoon tea and all the students have such a serious look obviously the teacher is good at bringing them in line

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Tammy Legg

Those poor kids look so miserable.

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Blytha Dennis Ellis

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Where was this at?

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Ambra Evans

It's a schoolhouse in the big town of Toledo Iowa :) My great grandfather is far left row and 3rd back...other family are scattered throughout the pic, too...

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Bee Rems

and they learned all the important basics ...not like now

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Teresa Regenold

Love the big wood stove in the middle. Grew up with a wood stove best heat ever.

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Carol Bostock

What a lovely class room and the fire in the middle of the room . Bet they were happy children

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Linda Osborne

My mom often spoke of a class room such as this..

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Lena Gargano-Reddy

I remember mymumwhile young had a terrible teacher he was so bad thathe actually through a student out the window for not knowing his tables mind you this was early 1920 s in Calabria Italy

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Marilyn Williams Wojton

Not related, but love the picture!

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Tamara Ruberu

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Very neatly dressed. Compared to the present day teachers

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Norma Cardoza

Love this picture. .they all look so young and beautiful. .

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Ken MacKenzie

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Overwhelmed by the response!

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Josephine Crossman

lovely ladies

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Sharon Beatty Baer Carlton

My mother-in-law taught in a one room school house in Kentucky . Her brother and several other family members were students.

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Charly Carrillo

I just love these vintage pics marvelous 💋🍷🍾😍🇲🇽

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Judy Birchfield

Then, If a young woman was not married, being a teacher was one of the few jobs open to them. Isn't that right?

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Cheryl Arthur

My grandfather was a rural mail carrier, and when it snowed, the rural teacher would catch a ride with him in the sleigh.

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Susan Schloss

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Beautiful, artistically planned photo. Love it!

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Stephen Zaremba

Would Have been Nice to have Someone Write down the Name and Other things About Them . I know that It is To Late for That. But You can But What You think you Know and Have Other people who Might Know Tell you what They Know. Good For Later on In Life as it is past on to . Other members this Way they Don't have to Guess who and What Year it was And Why.

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Guadalupe Cuenca Moreno

they are Teachers I am sure

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Paul Hewitt

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Halcyon days!

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Cecilia Johnson

I'm looking at the beautiful wood stove !!!!!!

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Barb Keen

Great photo!! This site is my favorite, love old photo postcards! I found 3 postcards with different women on them in their graduation gowns.They were from 1896/8 and were from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. I believe ,but can't remember if their names were on the back. I called the college to see if they had records on these women,but unfortunately the records for that year don't exist anymore. Does anyone know if there is another way to find out about these 3 women? It would be great if I could find out what happened to them, and if not,I'll stick to my imagination that they became great contributors to their chosen field that they got their degree in. :)

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Terry Bevill

Lovely looking school teachers

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Rita Hauler

Those were the best day's thanks for sharing!

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Loie Blackstone

❤️

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