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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…
A schoolhouse entertainment, the ghosts
Three children, each wrapped in a sheet and white masks, standing in front of the blackboard.
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.
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.
The school at work
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
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.
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.
The geography class - two who know
Three children sit in rows in the Hockanum schoolhouse facing the front of the classroom and five children sit on a bench against the wall, all holding books, some torn up. A boy and a girl raise their hands. Two large windows let in light. Two of…
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,…
Decorating the schoolroom for Washington's birthday
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…
The hard sum
Edith Barstow stands in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at a math problem. The names Luther Barstow and Oscar Johnson are written in chalk on the top of the blackboard.
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.
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.
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…
Letter from Amherst Academy student
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.