23.06.11

Postcard, Photographic

1915 Approximate

Students Posed by Country School. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of a group of 20 students outside a country school, rural schoolhouse, 6 girls and 14 boys; unidentified; standing on steps of a porch with shutters on the two front windows on both sides of the front door. Condition: faded

A collection of 40 photographs donated by James Barber, Janesville, Minn.; all but one photograph were taken by his father, Benny C. Barber, also of Janesville; Bennie was the son of Permelia Pitman and George B. Barber; Permelia was the daughter of Leman Pitman and the sister of William Pitman.