Description

Students sit and pose on a staircase at Maria Mitchell School at 32nd (Thirty-second) and Lafayette Streets in the Cole neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Girls wear dresses with rounded collars or wide lapels, camisoles, skirts with box pleats, necklaces, stockings, and laced leather shoes. Girls in sailor dresses with ties include an African American (Black) girl. Boys wear suits with ties, lapel pins, and laced up leather boots. An African American (Black) boy wears knickers. A woman, probably a teacher or principal, sits in profile and wears an overcoat. Names on verso identify class members and include: "Margaret M. Smith [?], Alice C. Swann, Ethel L. Mills, Mabelle Scrafford, Ethel M. Sims, Harriet A. Lannon [?], Chlo Greene, Marion B. Will, Ella Walker Snyder, Dora L. Cameron, Lottie Sullivan, Margaret E. Pierce, Mary M. Hecker, Veronica Casey, Marie Kreiner, [?] Leueck, Velma L. Powers, Carolyn Smith, Bernice Andrews, Harry Norris, Dorothy Kelso, Thelma Goff, Helen Rydelt, Margaret Oliver, Fred Gorton, Ralph Kelley, John Harrington, Fredonia Smith, Charlotte Snider, Robert Merrett, Samuel Flohr, Emily Fernandez, Ella Mae Bruce, Esther North, Esther Zimmer, John Sells, Helen Lipton, Mildred Landgraf, Fred Stevenson, Gladys McCulloch, Alice Wilson, Gilfun [?] Carlson, E.M. Werner, Esther Hansen, Llewellyn Heim, Ralph Schroll, Mildred Carves, Wesley E. Howard, William Edwards, Earl Brown, Marian McChesney, Angeline Shirley, Bessie Hinds, Robert Johnson, Louise Shell, Frank Goehring, Freda Markins [?], Rudolph Jackson, Esther Hirsch."

Record Contributed By

Denver Public Library

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Plains to Peaks Collective