Else Wachenheimer-Moos voor een onbekend gebouw in het schooluniform van de huishoudschool in Bexhill-on-Sea, Engeland, 1913 1913

An anonymous photographer captured Else Wachenheimer-Moos in 1913, posing in her household school uniform. This is a sepia photograph and the girls are sitting on the grass, leaning on each other in their matching uniforms. It's the kind of slightly washed-out, nostalgic scene you find in old family albums. I keep imagining what it must have been like to study at a household school. I imagine learning about things like embroidery, cooking and cleaning, but dreaming of art and abstract painting. I wonder if these girls dreamt of a different life. Did they want to travel? Did they find love? Did they have a secret talent for sculpture or the performing arts? This image is of their youth, but it also represents the countless possibilities that lay before them.