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Madison School Has Outlived Usefulness To C.B. System
Emerging From The Combination Teachers'-Custodian Lounge...at Madison Avenue School is Don Hiatt, custodian. The small room is located in the basement.
Council Bluffs Schools--Madison Elementary School
Photo of front of the Madison School, with date of 1892 in stone above the arch of the door.
James Madison School
James Madison school, 769 Madison avenue [sic], is one of Council Bluffs' oldest grade schools.
Council Bluffs Schools--Madison Elementary
photo of Madison Elementary School, ca 1930s
Council Bluffs Schools--Madison Elementary School
photo of Madison Elementary School, ca 1930s. Photo has been cut around the outlines of the building.
Longfellow Gets Jr. Hi Facilities
Viewed From The North...this photo shows how the addition is attached to the main Longfellow building. Robert C. Robinson of Council Bluffs was the architect. E.C. Underwood of Clarinda was the general contractor.
Council Bluffs Schools--Longfellow Elementary and Junior High
Longfellow Elementary school under construction. Sign indication that it is a project of the Works Project Administration: "P.W.A. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Longfellow School Project No. IA 1480-F"
Council Bluffs Schools--Longfellow Elementary and Junior High
Above is Henry W. Longfellow school, located at Ninth street and Twentieth avenue.
Classroom transported to late 1800x education style
Reading From...a McGuffy's Readers is teacher Evelyn Hopper while student teacher Susan Ustohal, librarian Nancy Bledsoe (both near stove) and a group of fascinated students gather around the pot bellied stove to listen.
Hike Nine Blocks To A New Classroom
Off to quarters just completed for them at Lewis and Clark School are 19 afternoon kindergarteners leaving Harrison School Friday. Mrs. Alta Cunnan, their teacher, leads the pack trip.
Struggling Onto The Last Lap
Struggling Onto The Last Lap...under loads of sleeping rugs, crayons, paint, molding clay and aprons, they head across the grounds to the new building. The same boys and girls will report directly to L and C after lunch Monday. About 55 first to…
New School Site
More than five acres of land were purchased Wednesday for the new four-room primary school in the Harrison District. This picture taken facing south from the intersection of Grand and De Long Avenues, shows the plot. Facing Grand, it runs in an…
Schools selling Kirn field despite 284-name petition
Area residents are protesting the sale of the old Kirn Junior High School field which sits on a bluff overlooking Council Bluffs. The school will put the property on the auction block Feb. 3. Area residents want the property turned into a public…
The Media Center
The Media Center...at Kirn provides students with a "wide-open" atmosphere that administrator's hope will invite students to come in. The back wall features the entrance to the original building and picture of the man for whom it was named.
Iowans of future, learn about the Kirn of the past
Over half completed on Jan. 26, 1979 is the new Kirn Junior High School at North Avenue and Highway 6. The facility, which will house up to 900 students, replaced the old Kirn School which was burned by arsonists. The new facility is scheduled to…
Kirn Views Kirn School
It's a real honor when a school is named for a living person--as this structure is for Gerald W. Kirn. The long time educator in the Council Bluffs school system views the sign erected this week at the former Abraham Lincoln High building. He was a…
Council Bluffs Schools--Kirn Middle School
Photo of the old Kirn school entrance placed in the media center of the new Kirn school, honoring Gerald W. Kirn with a photo of Mr. Kirn in an arched section of a wall, and a carved, stone cornice and peak with a shield bearing "1900." A man with…