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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Migrant Students in the Library Corner

Date: 1961
Description: Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner."
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Students and Teacher in New Classroom

Date: 01 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Carol Massen, kindergarten teacher, working with her kindergarten class in a new classroom space. The classroom was part of an addition that included ...
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School Bus at Oldest School House

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: Children disembark from an International Model C-30 school bus parked in front of the "oldest [frame] school house" in America. The bus was one of seven ow...
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Students at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room.
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Upper Room

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Description: A class picture with four rows posing outdoors, with a stone wall behind them on the left, and a brick wall on the right. In front is a row of boys sitting...
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
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Bay Hill School Classroom

Date: 1930
Description: Ten students sitting at their desks in the classroom at Bay Hill School. Their teacher, Alice Holloway, stands at the back holding a book. Blackboards cove...
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Dunham School Class

Date: 1946
Description: Students and teacher in the classroom at Dunham School. The room is filled with desks, chairs, books, a blackboard and a globe. Three large window can be s...
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Dunham School Students Outdoors

Date: 1912
Description: The students of Dunham School pose outdoors with the school building in the background. Identified are (front, left to right) LaVerne Campbell, Mildred Pet...
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The School at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Teacher Marjorie Carey stands behind her pupils sitting at their desks at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2, as they pose for their photograph. There i...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1928
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone wall at Saint Raphael's School. David O'Dea is seated cross-legged on the ground, 3rd from the right. He is poss...
Postcard

Anna Czech's Class

Date: 1924
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a class featuring Lorin Gillett (son of Sherwin Gilett), and their teacher sitting on the steps in front of the double door of wh...
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Garfield School Students

Date: 02 06 1959
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth graders from Garfield School with their teacher Grace Sorenson.
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Garfield School Students

Date: 09 1955
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth grade students at Garfield School, with their teacher, Grace Sorenson.
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Raymond Center School Students

Date: 12 02 1955
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth grade students at Raymond Center School with their teacher, Gloria Bicha. One boy wears a Davy Crockett shirt.
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Raymond School Students

Date: 11 30 1961
Description: Group portrait of seventh and eighth grade students from Raymond School with their teacher, Mr. Philbrick.
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Patriotic Holiday at Hillsboro School

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Description: Group portrait of class of young students holding American flags posed at the front of a classroom. Their teacher is standing on the far right, and desks a...
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Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 11 1953
Description: A group of Lapham School third grade children are lining up to begin a tour of the Bowman Farm Dairy on Fish Hatchery Road. At the head of the line are Geo...
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Sister Janvier Flying a Japanese Fish Kite

Date: 04 09 1962
Description: Sister Janvier, 3rd grade teacher at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, flying a Japanese fish kite with her students at the Edgewood College campus. The k...

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