Lakeside Lester Park; original Lester Park School at Fifty-Fourth Avenue East and Oneida Street; another school was built in 1917 with an addition in 1954
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Denfeld High school; Ely elementary school; Ely Central Avenue and Sixth street; Denfeld school was built in 1925-26 and named for Robert E. Denfeld Duluth's superintendent of schools for 33 years;In fall of 1918 Seventh and Eighth grade boys of Irving, Ely, Fairmont and Longfellow schools were permitted to enter Denfeld because grade schools were becoming crowded; brick buildings; trees; flag pole; spring
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Irving School; snow; winter; play ground equipment; Romanesque architecture; on Nicollet northwest corner Fifty-seventh Avenue West; this school building was the 'model' for Old Main on the lower campus or original campus of UMD; this building was constructed in 1893 on the site of the first Irving building
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Longfellow elementary school; above Eighth Street and Elinor; Sixtieth Avenue west and Elinor; bell tower; grass; three story brick and stone; entrance; granite columns; stairs
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Portrait of of George Stephenson, long time school custodian, standing in front of the Okabena school. Stephenson worked there for over 40 years starting in 1917.
Teachers and students are posed in front of Pleasant Grove School House (District 140). In 1886, Pleasant Grove Township provided transportation, at township expenses, for students attending the school. Theodore Eppland was the driver of the wagon or ""school bus"". This was the first publicly provided school transportation in Olmsted County.