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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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Pechanga Day School

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Description: Students and teachers in front of Pechanga day school at Mission Agency.
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Vera McCampbell Testifying

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Description: Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d...
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Mrs. Brewer's Class at Edisto Island

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Description: Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left.
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Indian School

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Description: Native American children, presumably students, and adults pose outside an Indian school. The location is not verified, but may be in the Hayward vicinity.
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Cooking School Instructors

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Description: Misses Armstrong, Stout, and Norton, and Mister Adams posed on steps before the door of a building hosting a Farmers' Institute Cooking School.
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Nurse with School Group

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Description: Theta Mead posed outside a log cabin schoolhouse with a teacher and her class. One of the girls has her arm around a dog.
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Pupils of the 2nd Ward School

Date: 1882
Description: A group portrait of students at the 2nd Ward School. The students are posing in front of the building, with girls in the front (straw hats on laps), boys i...
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Large group of children and adults pose outdoors at the second annual contest.
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Fennimore District #7 School Building

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Description: Group of students sitting and standing along fence in front of a clapboard one-room school. The teacher stands behind them near the front door which has ro...
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Jamestown School District #2 Students

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Description: Students and teacher pose outdoors. The students are sitting on two teeter totters. In the background is a fence and beyond is a farmhouse and farm.
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Jamestown School District #8 School Building and Students

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Description: Teacher and students stand spaced apart in a line in front of a clapboard one-room school building and a small shed, perhaps an outhouse. In the background...
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Little Grant New School Building & Students, Joint District #7

Date: 1913
Description: Little Grant teacher and students stand on the front steps of a new clapboard school building with bell tower. Erected in 1913.
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Little Grant School District #12 School Building

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Description: View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ...
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Potosi School District #9 School Building

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Description: Students with their teacher pose on the grounds in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse and shed.
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Smelser School District #2 School Building

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Description: View down slope of a teacher and students posing in front of a one-room school building with a plaster exterior. Behind the school are a fence, trees, and ...
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Watterstown School District #1 School Building and Students

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Description: View from dirt road of teacher and students posed outside a clapboard schoolhouse with a front door gable roof and a bell tower. On the left side of the sc...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from field of a teacher with a group of students lined up along a wire fence near a clapboard schoolhouse.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View up hill of clapboard school building with stone foundation. The teacher and students are posed along the railing of the porch. In the background is a ...

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