Photos, videos and docs of Alan Mays, with the keywords: "education"

Grand Spelling Bee, Fair View School, Mechanicsville, Pa., March 24, 1906

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:09:02 +0000

Katharine Hostetter Kauffman, later known as Katharine “Katie” Kauffman Herr (1886-1986), was the teacher who organized the spelling bee advertised on this handbill.

For a similar item from a later event, see Spelling Bee, Terre Hill, Pa., April 3, 1925.

Come One! Come All! To a Grand "Spelling Bee"

To Be Held at the
Fair View School
Near Mechanicsville
along Manheim Trolley Road

Saturday Eve., March 24, '06

Classes are as follows:
Class I. Open to Pupils of 11 years and under.
Class II. Open to all Public School Children.
Class III. Arithmetical Contest, open to all.
Class IV. General Information, open to all.

16 Valuable Prizes to be Distributed
The Program will consist of Music, Phonograph and School Recitations and Dialogues

General Admission - 10 Cts.
Proceeds to be used for the School Library.

Doors Open at 7 o'clock. Exercises begin at 7:30 o'clock.

Katharine H. Kauffman, Teacher.

Should the weather prove too unfavorable the Bee will be held the first fair evening following Monday.

L. B. Herr Print, 51-53 N. Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.

The Deestrick Skule, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 01:59:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of when I grow up (children dressed as adults or dressed for work, e.g. as policeman, nurse, train driver, etc.). It also fits the monthly theme of group portraits.

Caption in the upper right-hand corner: "The Deestrick Skule." A penciled-in dealer's note on the other side identifies the location as "Strasburg, Pa."

This is a photo of children dressed in costumes to portray pupils, the schoolmaster, school committee members, and local citizens for a play about the funny goings-on at the old-time "Deestrick Skule" or district school -- the one-room schoolhouse of the early nineteenth century (not the school districts that resulted from the later consolidation of these small schools).

Mrs. M. H. Jaquith of Topeka, Kansas, was the author of The Deestrick Skule of Fifty Years Ago (1888) and "Exerbition" of the Deestrick Skule of Fifty Years Ago (1890). Both of these provided scripts and suggestions for producing local theatrical productions that could accommodate fifty or more participants (there are forty kids in this photo).

The Cyko stamp box (Cyko 5, variation A2.66) on the other side of this divided-back real photo postcard has an earliest known usage date of May 2, 1910, according to Brogan and Weseloh's Real Photo Postcard Guide (2006).

Miss Kline and Her Students, Rhode's School, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:58:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of school days.

This is a real photo postcard that's dated 1913 on the other side. The photo shows a teacher and her students at Rhode's School, a one-room schoolhouse -- now a private residence -- located along Old U.S. 22 about two miles east of Krumsville in Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

A local publication reprinted this photo in 1969 with the following caption:

"The teacher in this picture was Miss Carrie W. Kline [1857-1931], a native of Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. She was a graduate of the Keystone State Normal School [now Kutztown University], class of 1877. She started teaching at the age of 19 and followed the profession for fifty years in the schools of Penna. She taught at Rhode's School from 1908 to 1915."

-- From Da Ausauga (Kempton, Pa.: Fereinicht Pennsylfawnish Deitsch Fulk, Inc.), vol. 9, no. 4 (June-July 1969), p. 1.

Reward of Merit for a Good Scholar, 1826

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:33:06 +0000

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An early nineteenth-century reward of merit.

The "Elizabeth Bradley" who received this reward of merit may be the same "Betsy Bradley" listed on a Diligence Ticket from the same time period.

Reward of Merit

This certifies that Elizabeth Bradl[ey] is a good scholar and merits much praise from her instructor Albert Caswell, Caldwell, March 18, 1826.

Diligence Ticket

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:33:08 +0000

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A reward of merit dating to the early nineteenth century. According to Patricia Fenn and Alfred P. Malpa's book about Rewards of Merit (1994), pp. 205-6, Henry Dodd and James Stevenson, Jr., were in business together as printers in Salem, New York, from 1814 to 1831.

The "Betsy Bradley" listed on this Diligence Ticket may be the same "Elizabeth Bradley" who received a Reward of Merit for a Good Scholar, 1826.

Diligence Ticket

To Betsy Bradley for diligence in study, is this certificate given.

E. Durham, Ins.

Dodd & Stevenson, Printers, Salem.

Bank of Merit, 20 Shares of Stock

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:33:04 +0000

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A nineteenth-century reward of merit.

Bank of Merit

20 Shares of Stock to the Holder

God offers reward, my Teacher does the same--they both encourage me. I tried, and success crowned my efforts.

Harry Lightcap, Pupil. Benjamin Rich, Teacher.

20. XX.

Vacation Bible School, St. John's Lutheran Church, Slatington, Pa., July 1, 1936 (Detail)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 03:47:02 +0000

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A detail from a photo of the participants in a vacation Bible school at St. John's Lutheran Church in Slatington, Pennsylvania, in 1936.The children in the top half of the image look like giants compared to the ones in the lower half, which makes it obvious that this is a montage of two or more different photos.

For the full real photo postcard, see Vacation Bible School, St. John's Lutheran Church, Slatington, Pa., July 1, 1936.

Vacation Bible School, St. John's Lutheran Church, Slatington, Pa., July 1, 1936

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 03:47:04 +0000

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A religious photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

"St. John's Lutheran Church, 12th Daily Vacation Bible School, 7-1-36, Slatington, Pa."

A real photo postcard of the children and adults who participated in a vacation Bible school at St. John's Lutheran Church in Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1936. It wasn't until I attempted to count the number of people in the photo—there are about 215—that I realized that this is a montage combining two or more images. A close-up of part of the photo makes the montage obvious.

German Girl with School Cone, 1951

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 04:57:50 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of beginnings and endings (houses being built or torn down, stores opening or closing, an old year ending or a new one starting, etc.).

Date and initials at lower right: "4.9.51. F.S." Printed on the back of this photo: "Photogr. F. Schumann, Pirna."

A snapshot of a young German girl who's holding a Schultüte, or school cone, which she received as a gift on her first day of school as a way to commemorate the beginning of her formal education.

For a similar photo taken a few years later, see Girl with Schultüte, 1955. For more photos, see my Schultüten (School Cones) album.

Cyanotype Woman with May 1908 Calendar

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:56:02 +0000

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Handwritten note on the other side of this calendar: "Ida Massimore. For faithful attendance at Sunday School. From your teacher, Mrs. E. W. Gregory."

Mrs. Gregory is wearing a cross necklace in the blue-tinted cyanotype photo on this calendar, which she used as an attendance reward for her Sunday school students.

A Halloween Masquerade Invitation! October 23, 1920

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 03:10:48 +0000

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I'm guessing that a masquerade held near the end of the month of October in the year MCMXX (or 1920 in Arabic numerals) would have had something to do with Halloween. One of the classes—juniors, sophomores, or freshmen—at an unidentified high school or college evidently created this invitation to ask the seniors to come to a party "garbed in costumes appropriate for th' occasion."

Also, someone used a pencil on the invitation to darken the masquerader's ruffle and add lines to some of the squares in the plaid clothing design.

A Masquerade!

When? Saturday, October 25, MCMXX at 7:30 o'clock.

Where? In the Conference Rm., News Bld'g.

Hark, ye seniors: come garbed in costumes appropriate for th' occasion.

Grand Excursion and Picnic Ticket, Penryn Park, July 25, 1900

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:18:04 +0000

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In 1900, the Sunday schools of churches in Landisville and Salunga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, organized a trip to Penryn Park, a trolley park that was located about eighteen miles away near Cornwall in Lebanon County (YMCA Camp Shand, a children's summer camp, occupies the park site today).

Grand Excursion and Picnic

By Landisville and Salunga Sunday-schools, Wednesday, July 25, 1900, Penryn Park.

Adults' ticket, 45 cents.

Pluck Print.

Spelling Bee Ticket, Camp Grove School, November 27, 1931

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 03:55:04 +0000

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Camp Grove School was located near Bownstown in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The ticket was printed by Landis Art Press, Lancaster, Pa.

Spelling Bee

Camp Grove School, November 27, 1931.

7:30 o'clock. Admission 15c.

Boy with School Cone, Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany, 1934

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 05:50:08 +0000

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A photo of something beginning with S—a Schultüte or school cone—for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Photographer's stamp on the back of this real photo postcard. "Adolf E. Weiss, Reichenbach, I.V."

Handwritten note on back: "Reichenbach, 9.4. 1934."

A photo of a young boy holding a Schultüte (school cone) on his first day of school in Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany, in 1934.

For similar photos, see My First Day of School, April 19, 1922, Petra's First Day of School, September 4, 1965, and other photos in my Schultüten (School Cones) album.

Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 31 May 2016 17:36:35 +0000

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"Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa. View from the East. Infirmary. Athletic Field. West Cottage. Auditorium. Grandstand. Model School. Girls' Dorm. Chapel. Central B'ld'g. Boys Dorm. Gym."

This view of Keystone State Normal School—with handy labels that identify the buildings—probably dates to the 1910s. The school opened in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in 1866, became Kutztown State Teacher's College in 1928, changed its name to Kutztown State College in 1960, and finally ended up as Kutztown University in 1983.

For a view of the other side of the gym, see Can You Find Me? I'm in the Crowd, Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa., May 22, 1916:

Can You Find Me? I'm in the Crowd, Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa., May 22, 1916

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 31 May 2016 17:36:37 +0000

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"Can you find me? I'm in the crowd. K.S.N.S., May 22, 1916."

Students at the Keystone State Normal School, located in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, pose in front of the gymnasium more than a hundred years ago. The school became what is today Kutztown University.

For another vintage view of the campus, see Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania:

Cosmopolitan Club, Springfield College, 1926

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:20:02 +0000

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The Cosmopolitan Club was the precursor to the International Students Organization at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Springfield College Digital Collections contains additional Cosmopolitan Club photos from various years.

Class of 1912, Clearfield, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:59:22 +0000

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A real photo postcard with "McDowell Studio, Clearfield, Pa." embossed in the lower right-hand corner. "The Brown Family" is the only thing written on the other side.

Nineteen graduating seniors—seventeen young woman and two young men—posed for this photo in 1912. Given the location of the photo studio, these may be Clearfield High School graduates, but I haven't been able to confirm that (one site—Old C.H.S. Yearbooks - The "Bison Project"—reproduces yearbooks from the school but the earliest one currently available is the1915 edition).

Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:25:08 +0000

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A reward of merit dated 1875. Unfortunately, the small but colorful chromolithographed scrap glued to the middle of the card isn't positioned correctly (take a look at a rotated version instead of craning your neck), but the elaborate design surrounding the scrap makes up for it.

The nineteenth-century "maxim" printed on the card reminds me of the modern quip about know-it-alls: "Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do."

For another reward of merit printed by Colton, Zahm, & Roberts, see Look Up and Not Down.

Golden Maxim Reward

Those who know everything in general, know nothing in particular.

Colton, Zahm, & Roberts, New York.

Written on the back of the card: "1875, James M. Stoner."

Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular (Rotated)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:25:06 +0000

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A rotated view of this reward of merit provides a better--though still tilted--view of the chromolithographed scrap added in the middle

For the original, see Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular.