Group portrait of a class on the steps of a school. Jennie L. Cowles taught at First Intermediate School in Amherst for many years after graduating from Amherst High School in 1871; she stopped teaching in 1885. Students listed on verso of photograph…
Two girls, one standing on a step stool, hang up a banner in the Hockanum schoolhouse with Washington's name. American flags hang above, just out of shot. A third girl sits on a desk, watching. Numerous photographs and illustrations line the wall…
A group of five students, three boys and two girls, stand by the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse doing math problems. One of the girls already finished and looks how others are doing. Two other students sit at their desks.
View of a group of young children sitting in chairs outside a house. There are a few older children standing and a couple of women. This is possibly a kindergarten or Sunday-school class.
Letter from Amherst Academy student, N. Carpenter, to her friend Susan in Dudley, Mass., describing the curriculum, the number of students, Fourth of July and other recreation activities.
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.
This institution offered boys a classical education and was a well-known school throughout the Connecticut Valley and beyond in the 1830s. The school closed around 1836 and remained empty for awhile. The wings were removed to other areas of town. One…
A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson Rutter, daughter of Clifton Johnson, stands by the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse working out a math problem. She is in period dress.
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.