Month

[Bobby Russell student at front of class]

Photograph of Bobby Russell with his hands in the pockets of his overalls. He stands next to a podium at the front of the classroom at the Locust Grove School.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Homework by the window]

Photograph of a young man and young woman working out of text books at a crowded table.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mary Lee Williams drinking from the dipper]

Photograph of Mary Lee Williams using a ladle to sip water from a large pail in the school house of the Locust Grove School.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students praying at Locust Grove School]

Photograph of the one room school house, Locust Grove School. There are students seated at benches with their heads bowed in prayer as the teacher, Here Pauline Robertson leads the class in reciting the Lord's Prayer.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bobby Russell standing in front of class]

Photograph of Bobby Russell standing in front of other students who are seated at benches. The back of a teachers head is visible in the foreground of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students reading at school]

Photograph of students seated at benches as they read from books. There is a furnace at the center of the room and a teacher standing off to the side.
Date: [1940..1950]
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Children playing "drop the handkerchief"(1)]

Photograph of school children at recess playing a game called, "drop the handkerchief." The students are standing in a circle holding hands as another child runs around them.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students standing at front of class]

Photograph of students standing along the walls at the front of the Locust Grove School. There are two teachers on the right of the photograph holding a notepad and book while the students watch one boy in the center of the group.
Date: [1940..1950]
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students reading in school]

Photograph of students seated at benches in the Locust Grove School house as they read from books.
Date: [1940..1950]
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Boy fills his drinking glass]

Photograph of a boy using a ladle to fill a glass jar with water from a bucket.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Doing homework by lamplight]

Photograph of Harry and Carl England doing their homework by lamplight as they use an old trunk as a desk.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students leaving school]

Photograph of teacher, Ralph Livesay, standing in the doorway of the Locust Grove School as students hurry out of the door. There is a vast mountain landscape visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jumping over grapevine]

Photograph of a boy leaping over a grapevine being held between two girls. There is another boy in the background ready to take his turn leaping over the outstretched vine.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Young girls eating lunch]

Photograph of the girls seated on a rock as they eat their lunches. There are other students visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[To the back of the line]

Photograph of a male student being instructed to go to the back of the line at a spelling bee. There is a line of students standing along a wall with a blackboard as two teachers stand and sit in front of them.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students and teacher at Locust Grove School]

Photograph of students reading from their books while the teacher stands at the front of the class. There is a young girl seated on a stool in the center of the room facing the rest of the students.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Leon McGeorge reading]

Photograph of Leon McGeorge seated at a bench as he leans on his lunch pail with an open book on his lap. A furnace as well as other students are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Children playing "drop the handkerchief"]

Photograph of school children at recess playing a game called, "drop the handkerchief." The students are standing in a circle holding hands as two other children run around them. There is a separate young child standing in the foreground of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fetching water for class]

Photograph of two boys walking along a barbed wire fence with a large metal pail to collect water for the school room.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Sitting on the fence]

Photograph of a boy sitting on a fence at the edge of a farm overlooking a valley and mountains. The boy is wearing a hat, picking his teeth with hay, and has his school books on his lap.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Children walking along path]

Photograph of three children of varying ages walking along a dirt path through a wooded area. The child in the front of the line is barefoot and carrying a lunch pail.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Children walking in the rain]

Photograph of two students walking barefoot along a dirt road in the rain. Each child is carrying a lunch pail.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Boys and girls walking along a country road(3)]

Photograph of two boys and two girls walking along a country road. The boys wear overalls, boots, and hats while the girls are wearing dresses and no shoes. Each child carries a lunch pail on their way to the one room school house.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Helping with a stubbed toe]

Photograph of an Otto Walker helping a Harry England with a recently stubbed toe. The England rests his foot on a tree stump while Walker applies a bandage.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library