DescriptionSepia-tone group photograph of Our Lady of Grace School first grade class with Mabel Bolles, Hoboken, April 1905. 5-1/8" high x 8" wide print mounted on board roughly trimmed to print. Photographer not indicated (possibly William Manewal, "112" in image at lower right appears to be in his hand.) Back has a contemporary pencil inscription, fancy lettering as presentation. Inscription on back: Miss Mabel Bolles Age 6 1/2 Years old #831 Park Ave. April 1905 Sister "Ferdinand's" Class of Our Lady of Grace School ==== ==== Mabel Bolles is seated in the second row, seventh from the left. This was the first grade class as stated by her daughter Joan S. Dalton 2014. View of girls only posed outdoors, possibly in schoolyard near Clinton Street (note window with stained glass at the right - this may have been the convent on Clinton.) Two pieces of worn scenery (foliage flats) are leaning against the wall as a background. A girl seated at center in the second row holds a small chalkboard lettered "Sixth Primary". School was at Willow Avenue and Fifth Street (and site went to Clinton St.) Mabel Bolles Sheehan (1898-1976), her memoir - archives 2014.055.0001. (She was born in Hoboken August 6, 1898.) On page 4, she wrote about her experience: I went to 1st grade [ca. 1904-1905] at the Lady of Grace School Clinton Street [cataloguer's note: this parochial school building was at the southwest corner of Willow Ave. and Fifth Street with a schoolyard at the back fronting on Clinton Street] in Hoboken when we lived there. Of course I was 6 years old and Sr.[Sister] Ferdinand whose friendship I kept until she died - not too long ago - was my first teacher. She was wonderful. She used to ask my mother if I could go around with her after school so she would have a companion - and I used to go with her to the Lady of Grace Hospital [cataloguer's note - Saint Mary Hospital] and visit people. There was a little candy store near the school and I had a penny real often which I sent for Jackson Balls - molasses-peppermint flavored - big ones a good diam [diameter] circle in size. The Convent where the sisters lived was on Washington St. and once in a while we would go there too. I remember getting slapped with a ruler because I didn't know about the Garden of Paradise and Adam & Eve. I have a picture of the 1st grade I think, Joanie, and I think you will be able to pick me out. ==== ==== ---- / child / girl / children / education / schools / class / students / parochial / religion / OLG