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Description: Female students work in a laboratory at the University of Oregon. They sit at wooden tables on wooden stools conducting experiments. The women are dressed in smocks or aprons. Pots raised on metal stands are being heated from below with Bunsen burners. One of the women looks through a microscope. Containers filled with unidentifed materials are visible on the table tops. Light fixtures and light bulbs hang from the ceiling of the room. In the background of the image a wooden box, cabinet, and metal ventilation device are visible.

Description: Black and white image. A group of children stand on a paved sidewalk in front of a dwelling. Four of the children hold pieces of paper that appear to be certificates that have text on their surface. Four of the children wear hats and three of the girls wear hair ornaments. The dwelling in the background displays a brick chimney, shingles, windows, and steps leading to a wooden door with a paned window.

Description: Black and white image. The image displays University of Oregon students who were conducting some type of science experiment with light. A young man seated in a chair with his legs crossed, hands folded, and eyes closed is illuminated by an unseen light source. The interior appears to be located in a basement. He is dressed in a suit with a patterned tie. Directly behind him a kneeling individual holds their hands on either side of the seated man's face. A cracked concrete wall fills the left side of the image. On this wall is a vent lined with bars. A stack of cut wood is visible in the background of the image.

Description: Black and white image. A group of people, varying in age, stand in a classroom holding a fabric banner. The school is identified as the Hoselton school. The banner that the women hold reads, Standard School, and the abbreviated years 1912 and 1913. Behind the group of people is a blackboard that spans the back wall with words written in chalk on its surface. Written on the blackboard are the words, School district #105. Pictures mounted to paper hang on the wall above the blackboard. A piece of paper attached to the wall beneath a metal pipe near the ceiling reads, in part, Requirements for a standard school. In the foreground of the image are wooden desks with detailed ironwork. Also visible in the image are containers of ink, paper, pencils, potted plant, wooden bench, wood floor, and a rectangular metal container with a metal latch.

Description: Black and white image. Ten women dressed in white blouses and long skirts hold a banner that reads, Walker. They stand in a classroom in front of a blackboard with a banner hanging from its surface that reads, Standard School. The abbreviated school year 1912 and 1913 is also visible on the banner, which appears to be made of fabric. The women stand in front of a wooden desk, which supports a vase with flowers and a row of books. Partially visible in the foreground is a wooden desk with an object on its surface that may be a candlestick.

Description: Black and white image. Young students are seated in rows at long wooden desks inside the Dorena School, located in the town of Dorena, in Lane County, Oregon. The desks have ironwork supports. A female teacher stands behind the students; she is dressed in a long sleeved shirt and long skirt. Her hair is braided and secured in a bow on the side of her head. The walls of the classroom are made of wood and decorated with plants and a picture. Blackboards with wooden ledges are secured to the walls. A tall window covered with a sheer curtain is visible next to the blackboards. An oil lamp hangs from the ceiling. In the backgound a wooden door is visible. Some of the students faces are blurred from movement while the photograph was being taken.

Description: Black and white image. A small group of young students sit at desks in a classroom at the Sears school. The desks are long and wooden and are supported with detailed ironwork . A female teacher wearing a long sleeved blouse and neckerchief is seated in front of the children. A stack of papers is visible on a desk in front of her. A wood-burning stove that's surrounded by a circular piece of metal is visible in the center of the image. A pipe extends from the top of the stove to the ceiling. Two long windows, one with a tattered cloth shade, line the wooden wall on the left side of the image. Pictures hang decorating the walls. A blackboard with writing on its surface spans the wall in the background. In front of the blackboard is a map that hangs on a stand, and a wooden table with books stacked on its surface. A partial view of a world map is visible at the left corner of the image. A wooden box, container of ink, book, and papers are visible on the surface of the desks in the foreground.

Description: Black and white image of young students seated at desks inside the Blue Mountain schoolhouse, located in Lane County, Oregon. The children are seated at long wooden desks that have detailed ironwork on their legs. The room's wooden interior is decorated with a large American flag, and a world map. Flowers in container sit on a desk in the foreground and on top of a wood-burning stove in the center of the room. A metal pipe extends from the top of the stove to the ceiling. In the background four children sit on a wooden bench and face the camera; the bench faces a female teacher that sits at a wooden desk. Behind the teacher is a blackboard. Also visible in the image is a cabinet with glass doors, books, a satchel, and three tall windows.

Description: Black and white image. A group of students, varying in age, are seated inside a classroom gazing down at a book. Wooden desks surround a round wood-burning stove located in the middle of the room. A pipe that's attached to the adjacent wall extends from the top of the wood stove. Two small logs are on the wood floor next to the stove. Spanning the wall in the background is a blackboard. In front of this blackboard stands a male teacher dressed in a suit and tie. On the left side of the image is a partial view of a row of wooden benches. Also visible in the image are a bookcase windows covered with shades.

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