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Claire Alexander
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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 other students are seen in the background resting on a fence made from wooden posts and metal pipe. One boy appears to be holding a paper airplane. Alexander's parents are identified as Gorham Alexander and Erna Alexander, deceased.
1931
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Dyer School
1931
A bell tower stands atop the one-story, clapboard sided Dyer School, District No. 1.
Pupils at Dyer School
1931
Pupils of the Dyer School, District No. 1 pose in front of the school.
Marian Violet Metcalf
1931
Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
Boy with Calf
1931
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.
Fishing
1931
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 cane poles.
Boy with Sheep
1932
Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
