A schoolhouse Christmas play, Santa Claus arrives
Hadley (Mass.)
Boys -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children's plays
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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CJ2223b
The first day of school, waiting for the teacher to open the door
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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 front are Luther Barstow with Oscar Johnson behind him, a boy in front to the right is Harold Barstow, and a small girl in back on the right is Hettie Johnson.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
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CJ2221a
Hunting for something in a schoolhouse Christmas play
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children's plays
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1895
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CJ2220a
Capturing Santa Claus
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children's plays
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 the right. The photograph was taken in the Hockanum schoolhouse.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1895
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CJ2219b
A Christmas play
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children's plays
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1895
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CJ2218a
Schoolhouse entertainment
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Boys -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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 written on pieces of paper standing on the table.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1895
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CJ2212
A game in the field
Hadley (Mass.)
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
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CJ2211
Around a tree
Hadley (Mass.)
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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CJ2210
Starting for school
Hadley (Mass.)
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Girls -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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 dress.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from opposite page 60 of The Country School by Clifton Johnson, 1907
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1905
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CJ2209a
A schoolhouse entertainment, the ghosts
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Three children, each wrapped in a sheet and white masks, standing in front of the blackboard.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
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CJ2207
At the schoolhouse door
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Girls -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Margaret Johnson, Clifton Johnson's daughter, standing at the steps of the double door to the brick Hockanum schoolhouse, carrying a book and her lunch pail. She is in period dress wearing a bonnet.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1905
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CJ2206b
The reading lesson
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Margaret Johnson, Clifton Johnson's daughter, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading from a book. She is in period dress. An unfinished multiplication problem is on the board behind her.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from page 46 of The Country School by Clifton Johnson, 1907
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1905
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CJ2205a
In the schoolroom
Hadley (Mass.)
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Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Students sit reading at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse. The teacher, Anna McQueston Johnson, looks over the shoulder of a boy sitting in the last row. Illustrations line the back wall of the class. She is in period dress.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1892-1896
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CJ2204c
The school at work
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1890
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CJ2203
Multiplication is vexation
Hadley (Mass.)
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Children -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Girls -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
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.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1910
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CJ2202a