Name/Title
Photo Graduating Class Porter School, by Piatt Photo Company, June 1927Entry/Object ID
1985.84.1Description
Acc. No. 85.84.1
Subject Category: Schools, Porter
Date or Period. 1927
Object: Photo, framed
Description: Sepia tinted photo with caption stating ``Graduating Class Porter School, June 10, 1927," & signed Piatt Photo Company, Alameda. Original frame in mat grey colored paint accentuated with silver.
Size: L-11 x W-9 1/2 inches.
History of Object: Framed photo of the graduating class of Porter School, Alameda, June 10, 1927. The donor was a member of the class.
Acquired from: Jack Hanson
Date: 10-30-85Interpretative Labels
Label
The Sailor's Dress became fashionable after Peter Thomson (or Thompson), owner of a tailoring house in New York and Philadelphia around 1900, promoted sailor suits for women and children. The Catholic Church was an early promoter of the style for school uniforms.
Alameda Schools - here Porter School - adapted it - at least as the style for graduation.
Porter School Elementary - already empty - burned down in 1973 and the site is now part of the grounds of Alameda High School.
