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The schoolhouse during a flood
The Hockanum schoolhouse during a flood with water up to the floor level. Photograph was taken on Sunday, November 6, 1927. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "The water began to fall on Saturday night. Heavy rain Thursday. The rain…
Starting for school
Margaret Johnson Rutter stands on the stone slab steps of the Oscar Johnson farmhouse in Hockanum holding a lunch pail in one hand and two books in the other. There is a bucket next to her and a broom by the steps. She is in the pantalet period…
Around a tree
A group of children including Eleanor Johnson, Norman Barstow and Peggy Lyman, hold hands around a tree. Two children stand on the side with the teacher, they are Richard Thayer, Warren Johnson and Miss Lawrence.
A game in the field
A group of children playing (cricket?) in the field by the school house. Mount Tom visible in the background. The teacher is Miss Lawrence and the children are Eleanor Johnson, Norman Barstow, Peggy Lyman, Richard Thayer, and Warren Johnson.
Schoolhouse entertainment
Two boys stand in front of the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse, one leaning back, both looking at each other. A dresser stands on the left and a table and chair on the right. A pile of clothes lies on the floor. The names Freddie and Tommy are…
Schoolhouse in floodtime
The Hockanum schoolhouse during flood. Water is not high enough to reach the school but the road and surrounding fields are flooded. Two boys sit in a boat, a girl and a boy stand nearby. Anna McQueston (later the wife of Clifton Johnson) stands In…
Writing compositions
Three boys sit at their benches writing in the Hockanum schoolhouse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
The schoolboy
A boy walks down the road towards the camera carrying books tied by a string in his left hand.