Elementary School in Tokyo Teaches Girls and Boys, during World War 2,

World War II Japan School

Archive

[Photo Album] [Education] Co-educational Primary School in Tokyo. Three-Wood Common Elementary School,1941, during World War 2, right before Pearl Harbor. Photo Album of Gelatin silver print photos. Original textured paper wrapper. Album opens right to left. 6.9 x 9.75 in. Album cover is dated “March of the 15th year of the Showa Dynasty” (in Japanese). 7 photographs, measuring 4.5 x 6 in. Each class photo includes names of sitters printed on rice paper in Japanese. Of note in the 6 class photographs of school children and faculty are the mix of men and women as teachers, and the mix of girls and boys as students. In the first image of the entire school, boys and girls are lined up next to each other, although they stand in rows of their own single-gender classes. Two class photos have additional small portraits of students who were absent for picture day. In Japan at this time education was not compulsory beyond primary school, but childhood was regarded as an important time to foster learning, growth, and intellectual curiosity for both boys and girls. Very good condition.

Item #16646

Price: $280.00