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In the Catskills exhibit flyer
A flyer for the 'In the Catskills' exhibit displayed in the Jones Library Special Collections from May to June 2016.
Children by the school
Hockanum schoolhouse and outhouse/storage building with the teacher and her pupils scattered around in front and under a large tree on the left. Ivy creeps up one side of the school. View from the road in front of the school.
The schoolhouse from the road
A one room brick schoolhouse in Hockanum and a small woodshed near it. One large, bare tree stands in front of the school and others are off to the right.
Old fashioned school days, winter snowballing
A teacher stands outside the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at her pupils tossing snowballs between the schoolhouse and a storage building. Four boys make and toss snowballs while one girl runs towards the schoolhouse and a second girl stands watching.
Making the fire
Two boys stand by a wood stove in the Hockanum schoolhouse as a third boy kneels in front of it putting wood inside. The boy on the left is Luther Barstow. A chair stands against the wall on the right near a window.
A punishment
A boy stands in the Hockanum schoolhouse with his arm stretched out to the side holding a book as punishment. Two other boys, Charles Thayer and Oscar Johnson sit reading in their seats. Two windows let light in, a clock and a couple illustrations…
A schoolhouse Christmas play, Santa Claus arrives
A tall boy, dressed in a long white beard and animal skin coat stands in between two shorter boys in front of the blackboard. A pile of clothes and two sacks are scattered on the floor around them.
The schoolboy
A boy walks down the road towards the camera carrying books tied by a string in his left hand.
The first day of school, waiting for the teacher to open the door
A group of students stand on and around the steps to the Hockanum schoolhouse. Many are holding books and most are looking to the right, presumably at the arriving teacher. A girl to the left of the door is identified as a Wright girl, two boys in…
Hunting for something in a schoolhouse Christmas play
A boy kneeling before a dresser, rummaging in the bottom drawer. A pile of clothes is scattered on the floor next to him as a second boy looks on with his hands in his pocket.
Capturing Santa Claus
Santa Claus, dressed in a white beard, a hat and an animal skin coat captured by two boys, one leaning over him, the other crouching in front. A dresser and a chair stand behind them, in front of the blackboard, with a pile of clothes on the floor to…
A Christmas play
A group of children stands in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse dressed in costumes including a long white beard, top hat, and sideburns. Boy in the front left is Charles Thayer and the small girl to the left is Edith Barstow.
Sharpening his slate pencil
A young boy stands next to the entrance of the Hockanum schoolhouse, facing away from the camera, sharpening his pencil against the bricks on the right side of the door.
Reading a composition
A young girl, possibly Edith Barstow or Hettie Johnson, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading her composition to the class.
Enjoying dinner at school
A group of children, most sitting, one standing, enjoy dinner in the Hockanum school, some holding their dinner pails in their laps.