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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: WI-04
Item: 00006
Title: Teacher Floy A. Brownson and her students in classroom at Twin Lake School
Date: 1907
Creator: Amsbaugh, Mabel B
Inscription/Marks: [Facsimile file] Typed on back of photograph: "Twin Lake School (about 1907) Back row- Left to Right: Wyatt Silker, Mabel Dusell, Vera Smith, Miss Floy Brownson (later Mrs. Frank Zenk). Middle row: Linwood Green, Hazel Green, Theola Silker, Mildred Green. In front: Steve Green."
Summary: Teacher Floy A. Brownson stands at the front of her classroom in front of a blackboard covered with math problems with her students: Wyatt Silker, Mabel Dusell, Vera Smith, Miss Floy Brownson (later Mrs. Frank Zenk). Middle row: Linwood Green, Hazel Green, Theola Silker, Mildred Green. In front: Steve Green. (history) “Wonder of Williams: History Of Williams County” p142: In about 1907, a new school was built by Bill Kelley and used for about 10 years. Some of the teachers were Floy Brownson, Mattie Holbrook, Goldia Wolverton, and Helen Ernst. In 1916 school was held in the Hubert Pung shack with the Thorstad, Bestrom and Westerso children attending and Elodie Halvorson, Ray, teaching. In 1918 the Twin Lake Consolidated School was built by Angus McMachen. This was a large school with two classrooms. Two teachers, a cook and a janitor were hired. During the winter months the kids were boarded at the school. There was a kitchen-dining room in the basement, and school rooms were used for sleeping quarters at night. One room was for the girls and other for the boys. Getting the kids to settle down and go to sleep at night was quite a problem for the teachers.”
Red ID: PH_I_120870 Image ID: 167789 Image Notes: 00032-WI-04-00006

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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