Photograph of Dorothy Attkisson and Marlene Schmoeckel (Friesenhahn) sitting on a shoe scraper at Lower Valley School. They are wearing jeans and short-sleeved shirts.

Photograph of Lower Valley School fifth through eighth grade students posing on the steps of the newer school building. The middle tall student in the back row is Bobby Weir. The second student from the left in the second row is Udo Schmoekel, and the fifth student from the left is Calun Weir. In the back row is Laurence Seiler. In the second row is Gladdis Haeckor. The first student from the right in the back row is Dorothy Stippe.

Photograph of ten young men standing in front of and on a tractor. They are wearing collared shirts and jeans.

Photograph of the Lower Valley School hand pitch softball team. In the top row are Cecelia Mueller Padalecki, Naomi Faye Snoddy Blacklock, Dorothy Katt Attkisson, Roland Mueller and Eduardo Arizpe. In the second row are Vernell Schmaekel, Marilyn Friesenhahn, Marlene Schmaekel DeWinne Friesenhahn and Oliver Grabe, Jr. In the front row are Verna Lee Gerth Beautnagel, Sylvia Katt Seiler, Margie Katt McCoy, Alfred Seiler and Harvey Seiler.

Photograph of a man driving a tractor that's harvesting cotton. He is covered by an umbrella. Another man is standing nearby, and another man is following the tractor.

Photograph of a man driving a tractor through a cotton field. He is collecting cotton. He is covered by an umbrella on the tractor.

Photograph of Lower Valley School students posed outside the school building. The students are posed in three rows. The younger children stand in the front row. The school building is visible in the background. A sign on the building says, "Lower Valley School Dist. No. 33." The picture was taken in spring or summer. Children from both the lower and higher grades are shown.

Photograph of Lower Valley School students sitting on a merry-go-round in the school playground. The female students are seated on the side of the merry-go-round closet to the camera. The male students are seated on the other side. There is a dog to the right.

Photograph of Lower Valley School students standing outside the original schoolhouse for a class portrait. They students are arranged in three rows. The children in the back row are standing on chairs.

Photograph of Lutrell Watts bathing dog Spotty in a metal tub. Watts is wearing a plaid shirt with striped overalls. He is kneeling behind Spotty and the tub.

Photograph of Maxine Watts standing near a car with dog Spotty. She is wearing a red dress and is holding a white handbag. The Lower Valley School building is visible in the background.

Photograph of Maxine Watts, a teacher at Lower Valley School, in her garden with her dog, Spotty. Watts is wearing a straw hat and yellow dress. She is planting a plant.

Photograph of Mr. Lutrell Watts standing near mounds of gravel on the Lower Valley School grounds. His dog, Spotty, is standing on one of the mounds. The teacherage building is visible in the background.

Photograph of Lutrell Watts posing in front of a blue car with his dog Spotty. The Lower Valley School building is visible in the background.

Photograph of Sylvia Katt (Sieler). She is standing in front of a wooden building and is wearing a light-colored shirt. She is pictured from the waist-up.

Photograph of Lower Valley School students eating outside near a school bus. All the students are boys. They are holding paper plates and sitting on the ground. The school building can be seen in the background.

Photograph of Lower Valley School students on a merry-go-round on the school playground. They are with their teacher, Mrs. Maxine Watts. She is sitting next to her dog, Spotty. Next to Spotty is Larry Baumann. In the background is the school building.

Photograph of Frances Rheinlander Stapper, Dorothy Katt Attkisson and Roland Mueller on bicycles. They are Lower Valley School students.

Photograph of a volleyball game. The teams are playing outside a small wooden building. The teams are made up of young men and women.

Photograph of a volleyball game. The teams are divided by men and women. The women are wearing white shirts and red shorts and the men are wearing white shirts and blue jeans.

Negative of two people weighing cotton in a field. The scale is attached to a truck.

Photograph of the Lower Valley School bus. The bus is parked in front of the school building.

Photograph of the Lower Valley School summer baseball league. Two team members in the front are holding a trophey. One man is holding a young child.

Photograph of two Lower Valley Students in rabbit costumes. The student on the left is wearing a blue rabbit costume and the student on the right is wearing a pink rabbit costume. They are kneeling on the ground and looking over their shoulders.