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Diane Putnam

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Posted: 31 May 2017

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One-room school

One-room school
South Dakota prairie, about 1932. My mother, Mary, is second from left, middle row. She has the same big smile (see PiP). The ghost-baby in front belongs to the teacher. Taken with an obviously shaky Brownie camera.

I don't know where the boys are, maybe there weren't any that year. I'll ask my mother.

, Steve Bucknell, Andy Rodker, and 9 other people have particularly liked this photo

27 comments - The latest ones
 Edward Bowthorpe
Edward Bowthorpe
Great photograph Diane,eddie,
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Edward Bowthorpe
Thank you, I'm fond of it!
9.3 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
Very moving and precious memory despite the boys boycotts LOL

I'll be is South Dakota this summer actually.
9.3 years ago. Edited 9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Léopold club
Merci, Leopold! Stop and say hello to my grandpa's old ranch. ;-b
9.3 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
School photos, what a lovely memory!
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Gudrun club
No professional photographers out there in the middle of nowhere! Thank you, Gudrun.
9.3 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Old yellowed school photos are so interesting and a great record.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to tiabunna club
I think so, too. I love seeing what kids wore, their expressions... thank you!
9.3 years ago.
 Marta Wojtkowska
Marta Wojtkowska club
Lovely!
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Marta Wojtkowska club
Hi, Marta, thank you!
9.3 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
Lovely old photos Diane.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Keith Burton club
Many thanks, I'm so fond of them.
9.3 years ago.
 Pat Del
Pat Del club
A good picture for the family album !
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Pat Del club
Indeed it is, Patrick! Merci.
9.3 years ago.
 Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Beatrice Degan(MARS)
I LOVE these memories so much!
They're precious!
..... about the missing boys in the photo: perhaps in 1930s there weren't mixed classes, were there?
This remark may look silly;-) BUT here in Italy I don' think there were at those times.I must find out!! :-)
ciao Diane!
9.3 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Certainly mixed schools weren't common after the age of 7, in England, at least wherever I was at school - and it was the state system, not private.
9.3 years ago. Edited 9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Grazie, Bea. Oh yes, definitely mixed, except for private Catholic schools. This is WAY out in the prairie and most of the schools were only one room serving families for many miles around. A vast landscape, which the kids had to travel on horses or in a horse-drawn buggy driven by an older kid.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Andy Rodker club
All were mixed here, with the exception of Catholic schools. I believe there are also some fundamentalist Protestant ones that separate (Amish?) but I don't exactly keep up with those things. I don't think separating the sexes has been a common thing in the US, in general. Building separate accommodations would have been impractical way out there in ranchland, anyway.
9.3 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
Looks like they have made a snowbaby and are very proud of the result.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Oh - ha! It does!
9.3 years ago.
 Clint
Clint
I tried to see if I could pick her out based on the inset picture before I read the caption ... and yeah. That smile never changed.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Clint
Aw, how sweet of you! Nope, not a bit. Thanks, Clint.
9.3 years ago.
 Sylvain Wiart
Sylvain Wiart
it's a nice souvenir .
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Sylvain Wiart
Oui, Sylvain! I love it. Thank you.
9.3 years ago.
 GrahamH
GrahamH club
I used to have some school class photos displayed at public level. One day I noticed that as a group they were my most viewed photos and that the identifiable viewers were middle-aged men with a risque/off-colour images in their public display. I found this sickening. I then changed them all to private.
9.3 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to GrahamH club
That is sickening! I suppose that happens everywhere, but I'm not so concerned about it that I will take them down.
9.2 years ago.
 Ernest CH
Ernest CH
Thank you for showing life in your country inlaces really different to e.g. New York.
8.7 years ago.

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