Peters Township Public Library - Historic Images and Documents Collection

Postcard photograph of Bower Hill School students and teacher Sadie Himmeger in front of the school building. Caption on original reads, “Bower Hill Peters Twp, 1914.” Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of McMurray School students taken for the 1917-1918 school year. Among those pictured are Howard McMurray, Marian McMurray (Munce), Emily McMurray (Caseber), James Woods, Pansy Woods, Sarah Woods, Homer Douglass, Elizabeth Douglass (Waite), Leona Briggs, Opal Lytle, Mazie Lytle. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of McMurray School students and teacher Sadie Himmeger by school building. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of Pleasant Valley School students taught by Elizabeth Douglass. Writing on back says, "Third year of teaching all grades (1-8), Elizabeth Douglass, teacher. Front row were all first or forth grade children. Second from end of first row was George Douglass Jr.- just as nice as he looks. He was in grade 4. Others in front, left to right: Fred Tolkens, Bill Holt, Howard Williams, A Tolkens, Bob Holt, Dave Taylor, Clair Wilson, John Miller, George Douglass Jr., a boy I don't recognize." Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of Pleasant Valley School students on the steps of the one-room schoolhouse. Pictured from left to right: Front row: Bob McConnell, Florence Riddle, Marie Markel, unknown Markel, Lee McConnell, Ora McVay, unknown Swehart, Marebelle Rowley, Esther Wilsman. Second row: Sara Park, George Baker, Irvin Kerr, Robert Miller, Harry Marker, Karl Wilsman, Olive Rowley, Martin Park, Hazel Rowley, Esther Baird. Third row: Naomi Kerr, William Morrow, Bill Gaston, Lovel Isminger, Ralph McConnell, Edgar Weaver, Jonny Miller, Pearle McVay, Margaret McCready, Flora McConnell. Top row: Rosie McVay, Olive McConnell. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of students in front of Thompsonville School. Donor assumes photograph was taken within a year or two after the school’s reconstruction in 1907. Adda Roach is fourth from the left of the girls sitting on the bench. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of Thompsonville School students taken for the 1934-1935 school year. Caption on original reads “1934-1935.” Pictured are: First row: Howard Bioni, Howard Schutte, unknown, Joe Almo. Second row: unknown, unknown, unknown, Dorothy Seipman, Alice Schutt, Ora Bell Horner – teacher; Boyd Roach, Jr., Marlyn Dodd, May Bioni, Russel Watson (Lynn), unknown, Bob Orr. Third row: Bob Clark, Dick Roach, Micheal Ossessia (Michel Ossesia), Dolores Bioni, unknown, unknown, Dolly Steffy, Mary Lou Wills, Tom Dames, unknown, Floyd Almo. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of Thompsonville School students taken for the 1936-1937 school year. Caption on original reads “1936-1937.” Pictured left to right: Front row: Alice Schutte, Chytle, Bill Fulton. Dorothy Seipman, unknown, Jack Roach, Dolores Bioni, Marlyn Dodd, Russel Watson (Lynn), unknown. Second row: Ora Bell Horner– teacher, Micheal Ossessia (Michel Ossesia), Joe Almo, Tom Dames, Bob Orr, Howard Schutte, Boyd Roach, Jr., Donald Chytle, unknown, unknown, Dolly Steffy. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of Thompsonville School students and teacher, circa 1915. Caption on original reads “Thompsonville School. Teacher Jennie Baird Lushen.” Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.

Photograph of students in front of the Turkeyfoot School. The building was one of several one-room schoolhouses in use in Peters Township during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Title supplied by Contributing Institution. Creator unknown.