School is back in session #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight shows a group of students inside a classroom at McKinley School in this 9-1/2″ x 7-1/2″ black and white photograph. Most of the students are sitting at wooden desks, while other s are standing near the wall. One student is holding a school pennant. The room has windows on both visible walls and a wooden floor. A chalkboard runs along one wall, and there are two planters hanging from the ceiling. 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 constructed in 1902 for a cost of $35,319.50. The contractor was T.P. Harrison.
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.
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