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This black and white photograph shows a group of students with their teacher in front of a one-room schoolhouse in Greeley County, Kansas. Two of the children are informally posed with their respective mules. For many students, during the 1880s and the 1910s, the commute to school consisted of walking or riding a livestock animal.
Date: Between 1880 and 1890
Item Number: 212745
Call Number: FK2.G8.76 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212745
Agriculture - Livestock - Mules
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Education
Built Environment - Function - Education - School - Rural Country School
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Education - Rural
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Children
Places - Counties - Greeley
Transportation - Non-motorized - Riding animals
Type of Material - Photographs
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