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The Aunt Irene Albums
Album One: The Early Years

Studying and Teaching

Aunt Irene was a teacher. These are photos from when she was studying at San Jose State Teacher’s College, visiting the teacher’s college in Chico, and her early years teaching.

Photo album page of four photos of first graders in Ceres in 1925.

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First graders in Ceres in 1925. I’m assuming Aunt Irene was their teacher.

Photo album page, three photos of San Joses State Teachers' College, 1920-1922

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Aunt Irene attended the San Jose State Teachers’ College. The photos are from 1920-1922.

Photo album page, four photos of young women at San Jose State Teachers' College.

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That might be Aunt Irene in the glasses in the first photo, and in the fourth photo looking askance at the girls lasciviously baring their knees. I can’t identify the others, including ‘Cutie’.

Photo album page, two photos of a young girl labelled 'Kindergarten' and 'Our Room'

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The missing photo lists an address, 756 South Third, which in San Jose today is a lovely home, built in 1900. Maybe Aunt Irene taught Kindergarten here?

Photo album page, four photos of the Paiscines school and students in 1922-23.

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Aunt Irene must have taught at the Paicines School in 1922-23. Paicines is south of San Jose in San Benito County. It seems to have 2 or 3 schools these days.

Photo album page, two photos of a pair of teachers at the Paicines School in 1923.

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Aunt Irene with a fellow “school ma’am” at Paicines School in 1923.

Photo album page of a photo of the Hughson Union High School in 1921

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Hughson Union High School, 1921

Photo album page, three photos of women who are probably school teachers, in Ceres in 1924

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It looks like Aunt Irene is teaching in Ceres, and these are her fellow school teachers. That’s Aunt Irene in the first photo, with Mrs. Baldridge.

Photo album page, two photos of the Capitol in Sacremento, and four of the Chico State Teachers' College, in 1924

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1924. In what likely was part of the trip on the previous page that took in Sutter’s Fort, here we have a couple of photos of the Capitol in Sacramento, and four of the Chico State Teachers’ College. I’m not sure of the significance of visiting the teachers’ college, since she already had her degree from San Jose, I assume, since she’s started teaching.

Page from Photo Album Aunt Irene's First Grade Class in Ceres in 1925-6

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My Aunt Irene was a teacher. This is her class in Ceres in 1925-6.

If you have any information on people or events in these photographs, feel free to let me know. Leave me a comment or email me at webmaster@ancestorlife.com

 

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