Future teachers and homemakers looking smart for their class portrait in oversize bows and skinny neckties. Sewing, basketry and caning chairs—were some of the many practical subjects taught at industrial high schools for African American girls in the early 1920s.
![earning to sew at the Gaudet School; [New Orleans, Louisiana.]](https://www.teenagefilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/earning-to-sew-at-the-Gaudet-School-New-Orleans-Louisiana.--e1304283239802.jpg)


