Table of Contents
Schools in Gales Ferry and Ledyard, Connecticut (and One and Two Room Schoolhouses)!

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.48.1
- Ledyard High School, September, 1993
- Ledyard High School, September 1993, color print. Opened September, 1963.... View Full Record

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- 2011.48.3
- Ledyard High School, May, 1972
- Ledyard High School, looking from Fred Allyn's Farm, May, 1972, color print. Opened September, 1963.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.48.4
- Ledyard High School, 1965
- Ledyard High School, 1965, color print. Opened September, 1963.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.49.1
- Ledyard Center School, September, 1993
- Ledyard Center School, September, 1993, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.49.2
- Ledyard Center School, 1970
- Ledyard Center School, September, 1970, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.50.1
- Gallup Hill School, September, 1993
- Gallup Hill School, formerly Cider Hill School, September, 1993, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.50.2
- Cider Hill School, undated
- Cider Hill School, later Gallup Hill School, undated, color print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.51.1
- Ledyard Junior High School, September, 1993
- Ledyard Junior High School, September, 1993, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.51.2
- Ledyard Junior High School, undated
- Ledyard Junior High School, undated, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.77.1
- Juliet W. Long School, 1993
- Juliet W. Long School exterior view, September, 1993, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.2
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Mary Stevens, James Wiemann, Ruth Holdridge, Janet Holdridge, Eugene Phillips, and Bud ?, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn.,, Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.3
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Janet Holdridge (7th grade), Mary Stevens (7th grade), and Ruth Holdridge (8th grade), Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.4
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Eugene Phillips, Paul Holdridge, Jr., and James Wiemann, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.5
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Jean Holdridge, James Wiemann, Beverly Crouch, Edward Brophy, and Teddy Crouch, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.6
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Edward Brophy and Jean Holdridge, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.7
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Student of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Beverly Crouch (3rd grade), Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.8
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Spring, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Jean Holdridge, Teddy Crouch, Edward Brophy, Paul Holdridge, Jr., Alden Holdridge, Janet Holdridge, Ruth Holdridge, Mary Stevens, Eugene Phillips, recess, posing in a pyramid, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Sp... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.9
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Spring, 1946
- Geer Hill School, front door view, Ledyard, Conn., Spring, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.1.10
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Spring, 1946
- Geer Hill School, additional building, woodshed, Ledyard, Conn., Spring, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.1.11
- Geer Hill School students at Village Farm, Summer, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan from Geer Hill School, unidentified, at class picnic, posing in a pyramid, lawn of Village Farm, Summer, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.12
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Janet Holdridge (7th grade), Mary Stevens (7th grade), Alden Holdridge (7th grade), Paul Holdridge, Jr. (4th grade), James Wiemann (5th grade), Teddy Crouch (1st grade), Eugene Phillips (6th grade), Jean Marie Ho... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.13
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Ruth Holdridge, Janet Holdridge (7th grade), Mary Stevens (7th grade), Alden Holdridge (7th grade), Jean Marie Holdridge (3rd grade), Eugene Phillips (6th grade), Buddy ?, James Wiemann (5th grade), Teddy Crouch,... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.14
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Janet Holdridge, James Wiemann, Alden Holdridge, Jean Holdridge, Bud ?, Eugene Phillips, Teddy Crouch, before school, Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946, b&w print.
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- 2012.1.15
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Ruth Holdridge, Mary Stevens, and Janet Holdridge, before school, Geer Hill School, front view, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.1.16
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Geer Hill School, front view, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.1.17
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946
- Geer Hill School, front view, Ledyard, Conn., Winter, 1946, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.1.18
- Priscilla Coogan on bumper of her car "Elizabeth" - Easter vacation, 1946
- Priscilla Coogan, sitting on bumper of her car "Elizabeth" with road map in hand, on the way to NH, Easter vacation, 1946, b&w print.
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- 2012.3.1
- Gallup School, #8, ca. 1912
- Gallup School, #8, exterior view, ca. 1912, b&w print.
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- 2012.4.1
- Lambtown School students, ca. 1948
- Lambtown School students, Mrs. Eleanor Whipple, teacher, ca. 1948, b&w print. Names are as follows: Gary Blair, Earl Lamb, Edward Watrous, Freddie Whipple, Sidney Crouch, Edmund Lamb, Jim Watrous, Helen Lamb, Mrs. Whipple, Lynn Whipple, Elaine Castag... View Full Record

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- 2012.7.1
- Gales Ferry School students, 1949
- Gales Ferry School students, including Gerald C. Watkins, and teacher Mrs. Graham, 1949, b&w print.
Top L to R: Arta Decker, ? Moulton, Lois Chapman, Ida Mary Holmberg (of Holmberg Orchards family), John Drum, Johnny O'Dea, Doris Burbee?, Dorothy Gr... View Full Record

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- 2012.16.1
- Ledyard Center School, 1944
- Ledyard Center School student photo, 1944, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.16.2
- Ledyard Center School, 1947-48
- Ledyard Center School student photo, 1947-48, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.1.1
- Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945
- Students of teacher Priscilla Coogan: Teddy Crouch (1st grade), and Alden Holdridge (7th grade), Geer Hill School, Ledyard, Conn., Fall, 1945, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.22.1
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- Unionville School photo postcard, exterior view, with teacher and students in front, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.22.2
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- Unionville School photo, exterior view, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2012.22.3
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- Unionville School photo, exterior view, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.23.1
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- Gallup Hill School photo, located on Gallup Hill ext., exterior view, teacher and students on front steps, undated, b&w print. Names on list with photo - starting with back row, L to R: Lloyd Chapman, Lyman Chapman, Alvin Watrous (d. 1989), Miss Anna... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.23.2
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- Gallup Hill School photo, located on Gallup Hill ext., exterior view, teacher on front steps, holding a large wooden stick, 1922 (?) b&w print photocopy.
What is the stick held by the teacher, and what was it for?... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.20.4
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- Digital scan, Ledyard Center School students photo, school year 1940-41, with list of names.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.12.1
- Lestertown / Lester District School No. 10, Ledyard, CT, undated
- Lestertown / Lester District Schoolhouse No. 10, Ledyard, CT, unidentified student in front, undated, b&w print. Photographed by Rudolph F. Bailey, Gales Ferry, Conn.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.21.7
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- Lambtown School photo, exterior view, undated (copy dated September, 1993), b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.24.1
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- Quakertown Lambtown School, Old Schoolhouse photos of site on "Old Schoolhouse Road" off Colonel Ledyard Highway, exterior views, January, 1992, color print. Note enclosed describes it as the "foundation looking east. The foundation corner to the rig... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.25.1
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- Lambtown School, exterior view, undated, b&w print.
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- Print, Photographic
- 2012.25.2
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- Lambtown School, exterior view, October, 1963, color print.
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- Transparency, Slide
- 2012.26.2.1
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- Geer Hill School photo, exterior view, students shown, undated, color slide.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.63.3
- Lambtown School demolition, October, 1969
- Lambtown School demolition, exterior view of open wall, red siding, September, 1969, color print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.63.4
- Lambtown School demolition, October, 1969
- Lambtown School demolition, exterior view open wall, red siding, September, 1969, color print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.96.2
- Ledyard Center School, exterior view, undated
- Ledyard Center School, boarded up, with stone steps, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.96.3
- Ledyard Center School, exterior view, undated
- Ledyard Center School, exterior back view, with Volkswagen Bug and Volvo cars in the parking lot, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.96.4
- Ledyard Center School, exterior view, undated
- Ledyard Center School, boarded up, with stone steps, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.130.1
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- Ledyard Center School, Meeting House Hill, Ledyard, CT, May, 1968, color print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.130.2
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- Students at their desks, Amos G. Avery wearing bowtie, Ledyard Center School, Meeting House Hill, Ledyard, CT, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.130.3
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- Ledyard Center School, Meeting House Hill, Ledyard, CT, undated, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.137
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- Long Cove School Class photo, pupils not identified, 1920, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.148.1
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- Unionville Social "Scholars," seven students shown in a school postcard photo, ca. 1910-1912, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2011.148.2
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- Unionville Social "Scholars," seven students shown in a school postcard photo, ca. 1910-1912, b&w print.... View Full Record

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- 2010.4.2
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- Cider Hill School, b&w print, circa 1910, includes Pequots Martha, Rose, Ralph, and Alice Langevin, the children of Pequot Martha George and Napoleon Langevin, a French Canadian logger. Teacher: Mabel Denison.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2011.175.1
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- Lambtown School, exterior view, undated, b&w print.
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- 2011.175.2
- Lambtown School students, ca. 1943
- Lambtown School, students (Watrous) and teacher(s), ca. 1943, b&w print.
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- Print, Photographic
- 2012.2.1.1
- Unionville School, undated
- Unionville School, interior view, undated, b&w print.
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- 2012.3.2
- Gallup School, #8, ca. 1912
- Gallup School, #8, exterior view, ca. 1912, b&w print.
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- Print, Photographic
- 2015.5.1.1
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1897, b&w prints (1 of 2 copies)
Teacher: Thomas Latham. Students: Minnie Arents, Ethel Fish, Mabel Smith, Mary Hurlbutt, Caroline Fish, Ella Comstock, Faye Fish, Elmer Satterlee, Annette Hurlbutt, Eugene Bra... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2015.5.1.2
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1897, b&w prints (1 of 2 copies)
Teacher: Thomas Latham. Students: Minnie Arents, Ethel Fish, Mabel Smith, Mary Hurlbutt, Caroline Fish, Ella Comstock, Faye Fish, Elmer Satterlee, Annette Hurlbutt, Eugene Bra... View Full Record

- Transparency, Slide
- 2012.26.2.2
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- Geer Hill School photos, October 26, 2012, color prints.... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.2
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1921, b&w print.
Teacher: Winifred Crepeau. Students: Paul Miller, Ruth Fable, Edith Fable, Viola Riley, Ethel Main, Mary Jones, EmBeth Bennett, Gordon Maniere, Warren Norcross, Douglas Fable, Rose Norcross,... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.3
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1927, b&w print.
Teacher: Evelyn Whipple. Students: Helen DeRusha, Ruth Main, Margaret Parker, Carol Norman, Christine Maynard, Ruth Allyn, Howard Nye, Harry Whipple, Edmund Norman, John Buckman, Louis Jenni... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.4
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1917/1918, b&w print.
Teacher: Grace Chapman. Students: Madeline Birch, Laura McGuire, Elizabeth Hines (?), Gertrude Allen, Gordon Maniere, Paul Miller, Warren Norcross, Donald Potter, Rose Norcross, EmBeth... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.5
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, about 1904, b&w print.
Front row: Harmon Cramer, Haroldine Sturgis, ?, ?, ?, Harlan Newbury, Edwin Bracewell, ?, Owen Sturgis, Mildred Rogers, Teacher: (name?)
Back row: Florence Hurlbutt, Marion Rogers, Win... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.6
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, about 1901/1902, b&w print.
Front row: Richard Bracewell, Edwin Bracewill, Raymond Perkins, ?, Herbert Sturgis, Marion Rogers, Tracy Smith, Owen Sturgis, Mildred Rogers, Winthrop Hurlbutt
Back row: Irving Hu... View Full Record

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- 2015.5.7
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, 1882, b&w print.
Front row: Wilbur Hurlbutt, Harlan Newbury, Starr Dean, Orrin Latham, Norman Brown, Samuel Brown, Charles Satterlee
Back row: Mary Comstock, Mildred Bennett, Edith Perkins, Laura Perkins, Te... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2015.5.8
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- Gales Ferry School students and teacher, in front room where school was held on Hurlbutt Road, 1927, 2nd grade, b&w print on board (1), copies (2).
Top row: Lyle Crandall, Christine Miller, Otis Jones, Ray Main, Warren McNaught, Ruth McNaught
Middl... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2015.5.9
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- Gales Ferry School students, 1928, b&w print on board (1), copy (1).
Back row: J.E. Norman, John Bockman, Tommy Maynard, Earl Coman, Carol Norman, Velma Atkins, Bernice Percival, ?, Peggy Parker, Edith Hartung, Chris Mider
Middle row: Joe Derusha,... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.12.3
- Lestertown / Lester District School No. 10, Ledyard, CT, undated
- Students and teacher at Lestertown / Lester District Schoolhouse No. 10, Ledyard, CT, undated, b&w copy print. May have been photographed by Rudolph F. Bailey, Gales Ferry, Conn.
Names given on the back:
Teacher:
Thomas Latham / Lucy Lester / Do... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.12.4
- Lestertown / Lester District School No. 10, Ledyard, CT, undated
- Students and teacher at Lestertown / Lester District Schoolhouse No. 10, Ledyard, CT, ca. 1910, b&w copy print. May have been photographed by Rudolph F. Bailey, Gales Ferry, Conn.
Names given on the back:
Evelyn Whipple / Annie Thompson / Teacher... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.9.1
- Stoddard District School, No. 13, Gales Ferry, CT
- Stoddard District School, No. 13, Whalehead Road, Gales Ferry, CT, undated, b&w print. Mrs. Fannie Gray Stoddard was the last teacher.
Bob Allyn Collection... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2012.11.2
- Long Cove School, September, 1993
- Long Cove School, Gales Ferry, CT, September, 1993, b&w print.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2015.7.1
- Stoddard School District, No. 13, Gales Ferry, CT
- Stoddard School District, No. 13, Whalehead Road, Gales Ferry, CT students (names not given), and teacher, Grace Chapman, ringing the school bell, 1908/1909, b&w print. Some of the students were part of the Cape Verdean community at Allyn's Point.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2015.7.2
- Stoddard School District, No. 13, Gales Ferry, CT
- Stoddard School District, No. 13, Whalehead Road, Gales Ferry, CT students and teacher, Bertha Maynard, 1898, b&w print.
Names given on back:
Edmund Norman / Olive Tubbs / Ruth Carpenter / Maris Main / Buster Perkins / Eleanor Fairfield / Grace... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- R-8.5
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- Gallup Hill School on the move, 1950s. After Ledyard schools were consolidated in 1949, the old one-room schoolhouses became redundant. Some were demolished, some became small museums and others were converted to private homes. The Gallup Hill school... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.25.1
- Gales Ferry School
- Hand drawn image of the Gales Ferry School. Image is very simplistic line work showing a three-quarter profile of the school, can see the spire on the front of building and the chimney on the back. Image done is either brown or purple ink on off-whit... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.48.1
- Gales Ferry School
- Black and white photograph of the Gales Ferry School, Stoddard School #13. The photo is of Thomas Latham's class, there is a mixture of girls and boys with an estimated age range of 6-16. The teacher, Thomas Latham, in standing in the top L corner. P... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.48.2
- Gales Ferry School
- Black and white photograph of the Gales Ferry School, Stoddard School. The photo is of Thomas Latham's class, there is a mixture of girls and boys with an estimated age range of 6-14. The teacher, Thomas Latham, in standing in the top L corner. Photo... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.49.1
- Stoddard District School
- Black and white photograph of the Stoddard District School. It is a one room, white, schoolhouse with a chimney on the far end and two doors on the near end.
Card Catalogue note attached reads:
School Stoddard
1868 map
"School #13"... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.49.2
- Stoddard District School
- Black and white photograph of the Stoddard District School. It is a one room, white, schoolhouse with a chimney on the far end and two doors on the near end.... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.89.1
- Cider Hill School
- Black and white copy of an old postcard showing the Cider Hill School. Image is of the school with one of its classes standing in from of it. there are approximatly 19 people in the photo, no notes on who they are or what year original photo was take... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.97.1
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- Enlarged, black and white photograph of the Unionville School/Schoolhouse. Shows the building as well as six students, three boys (one off to the far side of the door) and three girls. According to the accompanying note the photo is taken c.1800. No... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.100.1
- Gallup School ?
- Black and white photograph of an extremely well dressed man - three piece suit, tie, bowler hat - standing in front of the door way of what is presumably the Gallup Schoolhouse.
No information on the man is given, but the phtotgraph seems to be fro... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.100.2
- Gallup School ?
- Black and white photograph of an extremely well dressed man - three piece suit, tie, bowler hat - and a well dressed woman - fur stole, cinched waist jacket, mid-calf skirt, button shoes - standing in front of the door way of what is presumably the... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.100.3
- Gallup School ?
- Black and white photograph of two well dressed women - mid-calf lenght skirts, cinched waists on the tops and bright white shoes - standing in front of the door way of what is presumably the Gallup Schoolhouse.
The phtotgraph seems to be from the m... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.100.4
- Gallup School ?
- Black and white photograph of a young woman dressed in a white nautical style shirt and skirt with a white hate and shoes standing in front of the Gallup School.
The phtotgraph seems to be from the mid to late 19teens based upon the fashion.
It ca... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2017.161.1
- Lester District School
- Black and white photograph of Thomas Latham and his class standing in front of, what appears to be, the school house. The photo was taken by Rudolph Bailey.
Note:
"1. James Clark?
2. Teacher Thomas Latham
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4.
5.
6.
7. Hoffman Bailey (12 yrs... View Full Record

- Recording
- 2018.90.1
- One Room School House Reunion
- Recording of the "One Room School House Reunion". Reunion was held on April 22, 2018 at the Ledyard Senior Center in Gales Ferry. Kit Foster was the moderator, and it was filmed by Jill Foster.... View Full Record

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- 2018.15.1
- Gales Ferry Class 1938
- Black and white photograph of the Gales Ferry Grammer School, grades 1-4, from the year 1938. Image comes with a slip of paper that gives some, but not all, of the names of the students in the photo.
Back Row: ?, Jean French, Diantha Oshorn, ?,... View Full Record

- Record, Personnel
- 2019.01.1
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- A series of documents that detail the history of the LHS Boys Cross Country Team. Contents include lists of Coaches, Team Members, Championships, and various race statistics.
Document was compiled by Mr. Jerry Lentz and was given to the Ledyard H... View Full Record

- Print, Photographic
- 2019.02.1
- School Pictures
- A series of school photographs, from multiple classrooms. Images gifted by Diane Richmond (a Whipple) during a catch and release program. Images Contain Beverly Whipple Thayer B.1929 and Diane Whipple Richmond b. 1957... View Full Record