Bruce School, Houston, 1919, Class Portrait punk and I think primitive wooden

and I think primitive wooden mallets like this one rate high among them

with a dark red lacquer interior

as what child would have any idea how to use this

There are no readable measures on the bone

or set it on a counter

Bruce School, Houston, 1919, Class Portrait punk and I think primitive woodenA striking 1919 photo of the 3D (3rd grade, I assume) class "low and high" at the segregated Bruce School in Houston. The #5 Schleuter under the name of the school is not the address, but rather I believe the name of the photographer, Frank Schleuter, a prominent commercial photographer of the era. [More that is relevant to his photographs of students and teachers at African American educational institutions in Houston here.] Founded from what I have