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Grades IX and X, Jón Bjarnason Academy

Black-and-white class photo from 1931 showing students and one teacher from Grades 9 and 10 at Jón Bjarnason Academy. The group is arranged in four rows, with young men and women in formal attire, seated and standing against a plain backdrop. The caption beneath the image reads: Grades IX. and X. Jón Bjarnason Academy, 1931.

Image courtesy of the Icelandic Special Collections, University of Manitoba Libraries

Class photograph of Grades 9 and 10 students at Winnipeg’s Jón Bjarnason Academy, taken in 1931. By this time, the school enrolled both Icelandic and non-Icelandic students.