Done. The Bulgarian school boys (and girls) have come to an end. As I noted in an earlier post, I bought this album from an eBay seller in Bulgaria who told me that these photos showed school uniforms. With the passage of time, some of those school uniforms got traded in for military uniforms, but there was a war going on and more than likely the young men in this collection didn't have much choice in the matter. Making out the dates on the backs of these images was pretty easy but I didn't do as well with the writing. When I was growing up I was a paperboy. Does that job even exist anymore? Anyway, some of my customers were elderly Russians who had come to the United States, after the revolution, and worked in the local coal mines. I picked up a bit of the language from them. I can't remember much anymore, but I can still make out the Cyrillic alphabet. I thought about spelling the words out phonetically and running them through Google translate, but when I realized that I had trouble deciphering the actual handwriting, I gave up, so if there are any native Bulgarian speakers who would like to help me out, I'd appreciate it. Anyway, Stara Zagora was easy, and I'm fairly certain that the girl on this page is named Ivanka, but that's as far as I'll go on this page. I hope they all survived the war and the post war dictatorships.
As usual, click on The Bulgarian School Boy Album in the labels section at the bottom of the post. It's now possible to see the whole album, from front to back.
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