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Building trucks and train cars for a transportation project, 1927

First photo:

First grade students building cars for a truck, as part of a project on "How Food Comes to the City".

The transportation unit correlated history, geography, manual training, and science (growing plants) from the 1904 curriculum onward.

Second photo:

Closeup

The signs on the blackboard read : How Food Comes to the City: Truck, Boat, Train, Wagon, Airplane, Bus
Safety Signals on Roads: Hill, Detour, Curve, Danger
Railroad Crossing Signals: Gates, Bell, Sign, Mark on Road, Flagman, Lights
Signals for Boats: Lighthouses, Beacon lights, Buoys, Flags

Third photo:

Five boys with the train the class built.


Fourth photo:

Location: Blaine 187

Teacher: Nina Jacob, teacher, 1922-61, March 16

Archive: # 237a