"Interior view of a small one room schoolhouse in Littleton, Colorado, shows young students reading at their wooden desks; a few look out the sunlit windows. The blackboard on the back wall has illustrations of a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, a squirrel on top of a pumpkin and dancing corn cobs, titled: The Moonlight Corn frolic. A caste iron stove is in front of the rows of desks and a lantern and paper loop chains hang from the ceiling."
published between 1900-1910
Barber Schoolhouse, Route 442, Clinton vicinity, Douglas County, KS
"The Barber Schoolhouse, located within the Clinton Reservoir Recreation Development of Douglas County, was constructed in 1871-72 by Solomon B. Geary, builder, at a cost of $600. The walls are constructed of roughly dressed yellow/brown limestone, while the cornerstones and sills are of a light grey limestone. The schoolhouse, named for Thomas Barber, one of the first anti-slavery martyrs in Kansas, is an excellent example of the one room schoolhouse tradition. The structure is further representative of the stone vernacular architecture popular in Kansas during its early history. The school remained in operation until 1946 and there is a record of 21 students attending school there in 1898. During its last year of operation it was attended by only 2 students."
Western Divide County sod school house, 1910 : Fertile Valley Township, North Dakota.
"A sod school house with two windows and a door facing the front. Against the front wall is a barrel. In the foreground is a horse and wagon, with John Haaven in the wagon, and Ida Musgjerd standing behind the wagon."
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