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School Photograph Collection, Lecompton, Kansas
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Kansas Memory Blog
School
class photographs document the lives of children as well as the
schools built to educate them. This is a late 19th-century
portrait of
students at the Glenn School, a one-room schoolhouse that
still sits
approximately two miles west of Lecompton, Kansas. Built by
Swedish
stonemason Chris Christenson, the native limestone school
serves as the
backdrop to the three rows of students. Here, siblings,
childhood
friends, and future spouses all appear together in one
photo. This photograph is part of the Lecompton Territorial Capital Museum's large school photograph collection, now available on KansasMemory.org, which
tells the story of a historic Kansas community across generations. To learn more about the people in this photo and their descendants, see Treasures of the Township by Monica Davis at the Lecompton Territorial Capital Museum.Funding for this project was made possible by a Kansas Digital Access to
Historical Records (KDAHR) grant from the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.