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Doing math on the blackboard
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.
Multiplication is vexation
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.
The school at work
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
In the schoolroom
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.
The reading lesson
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.
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.
A schoolhouse entertainment, the ghosts
Three children, each wrapped in a sheet and white masks, standing in front of the blackboard.
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.