Student representatives from each Minneapolis High School aid in setting up the exhibit "Youth Goes to War" in the Young People's Room of Minneapolis Public Library's Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This is a photograph of school transportation vehicles and the Washington School. The second truck from the right side is Matt Pykkonen's panel truck, which was one of three motorized vehicles used to bus students. The three trucks were privately owned. There are seven horse-drawn school buses and three motorized vehicles, several of which appear to have students in them. The horses were also privately owned, but the horse-drawn wagons were owned by the school district. The Washington School was quite new in this photo, having been built in 1921. It housed grades 1 through 6.
Taken on the stage of the Washington School, this was the highly popular Teeny-Weeny Band in 1933. Note the wide range of instruments, including accordions, piano, violins, clarinets, harmonicas, xylophones, guitars, and percussion instruments, to name a few.
Students from The College of St. Scholastica are shown at the post office. Pictured left to right are Jean Shea, Doris Gleason behind window, and Mary Kelly.
This photograph shows teachers of the Thomson Township (Esko) School District standing on a porch, perhaps of the Washington School teacherage, where they lived. The places of abode built for the teachers were called "teacherages."
Depicted here is teacher Helia Branwall standing in front of the Washington School in Thomson Township. She taught several generations of Esko residents, and was one of the longest serving teachers in the school system.
Group photograph of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah Women's Auxilliary Presidents. While most of the faculty involved in actual teaching at the early Hebrew schools was done by men, women were important to the ongoing success of religious education. The Talmud Torah Women's Auxiliary in Minneapolis was founded in 1911 as a club, and by the mid-1920s had grown to more than 500 members. In addition to raising funds for the school, the Auxiliary was committed to furthering Jewish civic pride and Jewish consciousness in the home.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Talmud Torah schools offer primary and advanced education to Jewish students in Hebrew language and scripture; religious practices; and Talmudic commentaries. Talmud Torahs date back to the Renaissance, and were established in the United States in the 1880s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives