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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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Council Bluffs Schools--Longfellow Elementary and Junior High
Above is Henry W. Longfellow school, located at Ninth street and Twentieth avenue.
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"
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--Madison Elementary School
photo of Madison Elementary School, ca 1930s. Photo has been cut around the outlines of the building.
Council Bluffs Schools--Madison Elementary
photo of Madison Elementary School, ca 1930s
James Madison School
James Madison school, 769 Madison avenue [sic], is one of Council Bluffs' oldest grade schools.
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.
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
pen and pencil drawing, on onion skin paper, of Madison Avenue Elementary School.
Council Bluffs Schools--Madison Elementary
photo of addition to the Madison Elementary School
Viewing Plaque
Viewing Plaque...honoring Ray F. Myers and other teachers are John J. Jensen, Mrs. Myers and Ray F. Myers Jr.
Council Bluffs Schools--Myers Elementary School
photo of Myers Elementary school, 3657 Avenue G, from across the street. Flagpole, and young girl and adult woman walking past
Peterson School Has 'California' Motif
Light and Airy: Abandoning the customary monumental design of earlier school construction, the new 13-room Peterson grade school was given a "California" motif. The structure at Twenty-sixth Ave. and Ninth St., photographed from the northeast, is…
Theodore Roosevelt School
Theodore Roosevelt school, 1624 Avenue E, is one of the city's newest and most modern buildings.
Car showroom soon to be classes; For trainable mentally handicapped
Installing Posts...for a fence around the new school for Trainable Mentally Handicapped students at Fifteenth Street and Broadway are Jerry Miran, Joe Sedlacek and Rick Suiter all of Cardinal Manufacturing of Omaha.