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Collection Summary
Collection: 00076 - Valley City School Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00010
Title: Students listen to a lecture in the Science Lecture Room of the High School in Valley City (N.D.)
Date: 1903
Inscription/Marks: On the page below the mounted photograph: col. 76-10, and "Science Lecture Room---Valley City, N.D."
Summary: A full classroom of students, both boys and girls, busily takes notes while the teacher lectures in the Science Lecture Room of the newly built Valley City High School. The brick building was built in 1903 as the third building of the school complex. Behind the teacher in her long skirt, pompadour hair, and crisp white blouse, is a long rank of class-front cases which contain reference books and scientific specimens including a stuffed Snowy Owl. The students are dressed nicely in long skirts and blouses or dresses. High laced shoes were the fashion. Mounted in a scrapbook dedicated to the Grade and High School in Valley City, North Dakota.
Red ID: PH_I_145044 Image ID: 106079 Image Notes: 00076-00010

Collection: 00076 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Valley City School Photograph Collection
Date: 1903

Summary: Consists of 23 images of the schools, classrooms, students, teachers, and activities in Valley City, North Dakota, from 1903.

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