1907 Photograph of Children Holding a Chalkboard with "Carpenter School" On It

carpenter, Children, Hamel, school

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A 1907 photograph of children standing for a school picture. A little girl is in the front holding a chalkboard with "Carpenter School 1907" written on it. This may have been from a school in Carpenter, Illinois, located in Madison County's Hamel Township.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• education

1907

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

9.87 x 12 [inches]

• 1900s

• GodfreyPhoto-P-020