100 years ago

Your great- (or great-great) grandparents really did have to walk five miles in the snow to get to school! Here's how American childhood education has evolved since the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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See inside old school classrooms from more than 100 years ago - Click Americana

This Is What School Was Like 100 Years Ago: Your great- (or great-great) grandparents really did have to walk five miles in the snow to get to school! Here’s how American childhood education has evolved since the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The average life expectancy for men was just 47, and only 6% of Americans graduated from high school.

Year-round education would be less stressful for teachers, parents and children.

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The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.