Gallery of Photos

Children in Colonial America and Today

Gallery of Photos

Coming soon are some pictures of our students at work.

Colonial children and their toys. Image provided courtesy of University of Richmond.

This is an example of a primer or textbook that was used by Colonial children in school.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm - McLean Virginia. Through the Apprentice Program, youth volunteers aged 10 to 17 portray colonial children for the Farm's visitors, as well as doing such behind-the-scenes work as helping in the office, cleaning animal pens, and tending greenhouse crops.

http://www.1771.org/ed_apprent.htm

This is photo is a reinactment of two girls' lives in the 1700's. How have the lives of children changed since Sarah Morton's lifetime?

4/5th Grade Social Studies * Trident Academy * Mary Silgals, MLIS * September 10, 2007