Keep your eyes out for some birds this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 9-1/2″ x 7-1/2″ black and white photograph featuring school children from McKinley School standing outside holding wooden birdhouses taken in April of 1904. A school pennant is flying on a pole above the children, who are standing on the edge of a brick street. The Nebraska state capitol building is visible behind them. McKinley School was located at 230 S. 15th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1902 to 1927. It was used as an elementary school until 1915 when it became a “special school with grades 1-9 with prevocational and evening classes.” The school building was originally constructed in 1902.
This image is owned and published by the Lincoln Public Schools. Over the past 15 years, the Library Media Services Department has made a deliberate attempt to collect, preserve, and archive the history of Lincoln public schools and make various items available to the staff and also the public.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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