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Closing Day Exercises in District #15, North Lancaster

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Description: A large group of children and adults pose in a field around trees. There is a tent in the background with flags, and two women sit in a carriage on the lef...
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Picnic Dinner

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Description: Children and adults seated at a large make-shift picnic table in a field near a tree. In the background on the left is a carriage, and on the right a horse...
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Dyer School

Date: 1931
Description: A bell tower stands atop the one-story, clapboard sided Dyer School, District No. 1.
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Claire Alexander

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander, 12, identified on the reverse of the photograph as "Boy Champion of 4-H Club" posing wearing bib overalls and a cap with earflaps. Two ot...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Headstand

Date: 1931
Description: A girl wearing bloomers and long stockings performs a headstand as other girls look on. One of the bystanders is also wearing athletic clothes under her co...
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School Picnic

Date: 1931
Description: Teacher Marian Violet Metcalf, center, stands among her students as they prepare to roast marshmallows at the school picnic. Picnic baskets and a large mar...
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Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: View across water towards a group of pupils from the Dyer School fishing from the banks of a stream "about a mile south of school." They are using long can...

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