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Lakeview School, Armstrong Co., Tex., 3-5-14

Photograph of a small group of adults and children posed in front of the Lakeview School in Armstrong County, Texas. The wooden frame school building has a pitched roof and a double-door entryway flanked by windows. Projecting from each side of this section of the building are wings. The people stand in a loose group in the entryway, with others seated on the step and on the ground. A note on the reverse reads, "Lakeview - nine miles from town - A two-teacher school which is the centre of neighborhood interests."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wayside, Tex.

Photograph of the Wayside School at Wayside, Texas. A group of students and teachers are posed in the front of the school. The building is built from textured concrete blocks. It has a hip roof with a deck surrounded by a low railing. The entryway is covered, the roof supported by two square columns. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Wayside - $3000 concrete block, 20 miles from R.R.; 30 miles from Courthouse. Most interested in Farm Demonstration & Community Welfare Club work."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr, S. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Washburn Wheat Harvest Crew]

Photograph of a wheat harvest crew by a thresher and pile of wheat in Washburn, Texas; on the left a young woman and two men are standing on top of the machine, five men are standing in front of it in the center, and on the right two men are standing on the pile of straw holding pitchforks.
Date: July 16, 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fairview School, Armstrong Co., Tex.

Photograph of of the Fairview School in Armstrong County, Texas. The school is a wood frame building with a pitched roof. In front of the school, students are posed in groups according to age, most seated on the ground, with a few standing. An adult male, probably a teacher, stands near the center rear of the children.
Date: November 18, 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History