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School Photograph

1929-1930 (made)

Sepia photographic print, of landscape proportions with a white border, showing a school class (presumably at College Lane School, Homerton, which Peggy Joyce attended). The twenty-two children (fourteen boys and eight girls) are arranged in four rows, and are accompanied by three women (one in nurse's uniform) who are presumably the class teacher, head teacher, and matron. The boy seated in the middle of the front row holds a board marked "Class III": these children are probably the "remove" class of their school, pupils with difficulties or disadvantages of some kind (for example, one boy has a calliper on his leg, another is in a wheelchair, and Peggy Joyce was a delicate child who had a weak heart). Peggy is shown sitting in the second row, and is the second girl from the left: a thin child with a pointed face, and short wavy hair cut in a fringe. She wears a loose white tunic dress with a belt, and her hands are clasped loosely in her lap, with the left wrist and part of the left hand bandaged.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Photographic card
Brief description
School photograph; College Lane School, Homerton; British, 1929-30
Physical description
Sepia photographic print, of landscape proportions with a white border, showing a school class (presumably at College Lane School, Homerton, which Peggy Joyce attended). The twenty-two children (fourteen boys and eight girls) are arranged in four rows, and are accompanied by three women (one in nurse's uniform) who are presumably the class teacher, head teacher, and matron. The boy seated in the middle of the front row holds a board marked "Class III": these children are probably the "remove" class of their school, pupils with difficulties or disadvantages of some kind (for example, one boy has a calliper on his leg, another is in a wheelchair, and Peggy Joyce was a delicate child who had a weak heart). Peggy is shown sitting in the second row, and is the second girl from the left: a thin child with a pointed face, and short wavy hair cut in a fringe. She wears a loose white tunic dress with a belt, and her hands are clasped loosely in her lap, with the left wrist and part of the left hand bandaged.
DimensionsHeight: 12 cm Width 2: 16.2 cm
Object history
References:


Shows Margaret ("Peggy") Joyce (b.1922), the bequestor's
only daughter, of 2 Quested Buildings, Brett Rd, London
E8, with classmates. Peggy had rheumatic fever in 1929,
died of heart failure in the Rahere Ward, St Bartholo-
mew's Hospital on 02/12/1930, & is buried in Abney Park
Cemetery with her brother Alan (15/03/1921-12/09/1921).
Production
Britain
Collection
Accession number
B.999-1993

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Record createdApril 19, 2000
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