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A Christmas blackboard decoration
A boy stands on a chair drawing holly across the top of the blackboard with chalk in his right hand and an eraser in his left hand.
A class photograph
Students and their teacher, Miss Lawrence, stand in front of the Hockanum schoolhouse for a photograph. The students are identified as: Lillian Treadwell, Norman Barstow, Peggy Lyman, Warren Johnson, Eleanor Johnson, Henry Drozdal, Dotty Barstow,…
Tags: 1930s, Children, Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Schools
A dialog in a schoolhouse entertainment
Two boys wearing fake beards sit facing each other pretending they are warming their hands in a fireplace. A jug and a glass stand on a table in front of them. The building is the Hockanum schoolhouse.
Tags: 1890s, Children, Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Schools
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…
Tags: Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Schools
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.
Tags: Children, Christmas, Clifton Johnson, Santa Clause, Schools
A schoolhouse entertainment, the ghosts
Three children, each wrapped in a sheet and white masks, standing in front of the blackboard.
Tags: Children, Clifton Johnson, Ghosts, Hadley, Schools
Amherst Academy and Parsons House
View of Amity Street and Amherst Academy building, where Emily Dickinson went to school. The Academy building is three and one-half stories and federal style. The building was razed in 1868. Rev. David Parsons House is on the right. The Jones Library…
Tags: 1850s, Amherst Academy, Education, Emily Dickinson, Jones Library, Schools
Amherst Academy catalog for 1840
Catalog that includes lists of trustees, teachers, and students. Also includes lists of textbooks and general information about the school.
Tags: 1840s, Amherst Academy, Education, Schools
Amherst Boys Club on Cleanup Day
Members of the Amherst Boys Club working on a project on Cleanup Day. Boys are at work shoveling dirt near a parked a two-horse cart filled with dirt. Kellogg Avenue School is in the background.
Amherst Record Home Almanac
Almanac "containing matters of local interest, local business announcements...also some pages of miscellaneous reading." Includes a chronology of notable events (both local and national) for 1876, Amherst marriages and deaths for the year, statistics…
At the schoolhouse door
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.
Tags: 1910s, Children, Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Schools
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…
Tags: 1890s, Children, Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Santa Clause, Schools
Catalog of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1847-48
This 16-page catalog lists trustees, teachers and pupils at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for the year that Emily Dickinson attended, describing the course of study, entrance requirements, books used, vacations, Sabbath requirements, etc.
Tags: 1840s, Education, Emily Dickinson, Muses, Schools
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.
Tags: 1930s, Clifton Johnson, Schools