Gresham Grade School Class Landscape
1908
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white photo of children and teacher on the front steps of Gresham School. Case in front of the students has written on it "Gresham | Grades 1 & 2". Boys all have their arms crossed in front of their chest. Almost all girls have their arms behind their back. It appears the teacher is on the left side, second row. White border around edge of photo. Handwritten on back "Belongs to D. Gilmore." Details from previous record, but not on photo: "Row 1: Effie (?), Lucille (?), Benema Mathew, Mable Metzger, Helen Wostell, Letitia Pulfer, 3 unidentified, Jeannette Dowsett, Gertrude Dowsett, Row 2: Miss Parmalee, teacher, 4 unidentified, Conrad Metzger, 2 unidentified, Bryron Johnson, Melvin Brugge". People identified: Mathew, Benema Metzger, Mable Wostell, Helen Pulfer, Letitia Dowsett, Jeannette Dowsett, Gertrude Parmalee Metzger, Conrad Johnson, Bryron Brugge, Melvin
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- Description
- Black and white photo of children and teacher on the front steps of Gresham School. Case in front of the students has written on it "Gresham | Grades 1 & 2". Boys all have their arms crossed in front of their chest. Almost all girls have their arms behind their back. It appears the teacher is on the left side, second row. White border around edge of photo. Handwritten on back "Belongs to D. Gilmore." Details from previous record, but not on photo: "Row 1: Effie (?), Lucille (?), Benema Mathew, Mable Metzger, Helen Wostell, Letitia Pulfer, 3 unidentified, Jeannette Dowsett, Gertrude Dowsett, Row 2: Miss Parmalee, teacher, 4 unidentified, Conrad Metzger, 2 unidentified, Bryron Johnson, Melvin Brugge". People identified: Mathew, Benema Metzger, Mable Wostell, Helen Pulfer, Letitia Dowsett, Jeannette Dowsett, Gertrude Parmalee Metzger, Conrad Johnson, Bryron Brugge, Melvin
- Provenance
- D. Gilmore is likely Dorothea Gilmore, a librarian at Gresham Union High and the Gresham Branch Library. Her father, Dr. Joseph Short, was the second mayor of Gresham, started a record of births in the city, introduced electricity to Gresham, and was a part of organizing the newspaper that was The Outlook's forerunner. The 3 story Gresham Grade and High School was built in 1901 by John Brown. It was the largest school to be built in Gresham at the time. The first high students graduated from it in 1906. The school in this photo stood from 1901 to 1923 at the southwest corner of Powell and Walters, on the site of three earlier school buildings. It began as a combined elementary and high school and included four classrooms. Gresham High School was constructed in 1915, after which this school housed only 1st through 8th grades. It was replaced in 1923 by a new building that was called Gresham Grade School and later became West Gresham Elementary.
- Date
- 1908
- Subject
- School children
- Schools
- West Gresham
- Grade School
- Gresham
- Grade School District
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs321
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
