First grade students taking corn off the cob, and grinding it into meal using stone, mortar and pestle. They studied how people grew plants and made them into food in different climates.
This is a marketing photograph to demonstrate new methods of teaching,
so the there is a music score on the blackboard, showing that the students are
also learning music notation. Older classes sometimes composed simple music
for poems.
Elsabeth Van Port, teacher 1903-08
Bertha Payne, teacher 1902-07
Location: Blaine Classroom
Archive: photo #024
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