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Photograph of Lecompton Elementary School, 3rd & 4th grades and teacher, 1909. Children and teacher standing outside of a stone school with wooden door and entryway behind them. The old stone school used to stand at the south-west corner of Woodson and Boone Street. (The stone school burned in 1919.) Each of the pupils have numbers inscribed on their chest or near them on the photo in ink. The numbers correspond to identification inscribed on verso. Top Row--Left to Right: 1. __ Miller, 2. Unknown 3. Mary Carlson, 4. Unknown, 5. Unknown, 6 Pearl Lewis (teacher); Middle Row--Left to Right: 7. Alvin Miller, 8. Neal East, 9. Nathan Morris, 10. 11. Unknown; 12. Ambrosia Ballard, 13. Hildreth Leming, 14. Myrtle Miller, 15. Mae Baughman, 16. Minnie Brisbane, 17. Violet Scott; Bottom Row --Left to Right: 18. Unknown, 19. Unknown, 20. Unknown, 21. Forest Hacker, 22. Unknown, 23. Mildred Morriss, 24. Charles "Bo" Kuhn, 25. Hugh Larimer, 31. Fred Carlson, 26. Winter Ingham, 27. Jack Hill, 32. Ralph McRae, 28. Bernard McAdow, 29. Charles Zellers, 30. Kenneth Morriss. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Date: 1909
Item Number: 440604
Call Number: Lecompton Historical Society 2679
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440604
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Lecompton Historical Society
Collections - Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board (KSHRAB) - Kansas Digital Access to Historical Records (KDAHR)
Date - 1900s - 1909
Education - Primary - Students
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Type of Material - Photographs
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