Having a little colonial afternoon in honor of the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth with the Second Grade class at the Thayer School in Franklin Massachusetts one cold March afternoon in 1932. A little Betsy Ross, too.

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Colonial Afternoon in Honor of George Washington Bicentennial. March 18 (?) 1932. Second Grade, Thayer School, Franklin, Massachusetts. American. Front cover of a photograph album with photographs of an event celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial
Second grade classroom at the Thayer School with most of the children and their teachers in costume, some seated around what I think is a model of Mount Vernon. There are several mothers and grandmothers seated over on the right by the window flanked by American flags. Love the little colonial wigs. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial
Children seated at their desks in costume as 18th century people, a few of the boys wearing socks with stars. Their teachers are in costume too. The mothers over on the left are not and the man on the left is wearing a business suit. The school superintendent? a father? it doesn’t say. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial

George Washington holding his tricorn hat and surrounded by his classmates and teachers in the back, all of them dressed as 18th century people more or less, many in little white wigs standing in front of a 1932 American flag. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial
Children dancing in front of a 1932 American flag, the boys in white wigs and the girls in caps with I think George and Martha Washington being the second couple from the left. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial
Three girls, all in 18th century costumes sitting in front of a 1932 American flag. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennial
Betsy Ross holding up the flag she just finished sewing with George Washington being I think the boy with the tricorn hat, posed in front of a 1932 American flag. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennia
Second grade class teachers also in 18th century costume posing in front of a 1932 American flag. Photograph from a photograph album with photographs of a pageant celebrating the Bicentennial of George Washington’s birth, held in March 1932 by the Second Grade at the Thayer School in Franklin, Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. via https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/27005215/photo-album-colonial-afternoon-in-honor-of-george-washington-bicentennia

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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