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Collection Summary
Collection: 00076 - Valley City School Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00012
Title: A view into part of the "Boys' Toilet Room" in the school at Valley City (N.D.)
Date: 1903
Inscription/Marks: On the page below the mounted photograph: col. 76-12, and "Section of the Boys' Toilet Room--Valley City, No.Dak."
Summary: A wooden screen of dark beadboard separates the hall entry from the actual bathroom or "Toilet Room" in the newly built high school in Valley City (N.D.). The tall doorway has a transom window. A sink is near the exit/entry. A line of stalls with fixed louvered doors is made of wooden beadboard to surround the toilets. On the wall opposite the toilet stalls is a long, open metal trough that is suspended from a pipe from the ceiling, and has a drain at each end. This was up-scale for a 1903 school. Mounted in a scrapbook dedicated to the Grade and High School in Valley City, North Dakota.
Red ID: PH_I_145046 Image ID: 106081 Image Notes: 00076-00012

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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