This portrait of the 6th grade class of the 3rd [?] Ward School in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, was probably taken around 1919 or 1920.
Someone has written names for most of the students on the back of the photograph, but it is badly faded and damaged in places. Sometimes a first or last name is left blank; this is marked here with "---". Question marks in square brackets are for those that are not clear; the more question marks, the more unclear it is.
On the left side is written:
Wilson [PHYLLIS?]
[damaged] MORRIS [??]
Bessie COBB
Lester COOPER
Ralph DEMARCO
--- WINTERS
Esther CARSINI
Herman HOHE
--- MILLER
Robert [?] WOOLEY
--- SCHUSTER
Floyd GERLACH
Margarett [?] [illegible]
Franceline [Tronceline??] CROUP [?]
Walter HARRIS [?]
Grace RHEIM
Janell HOSTINE
Harold BUCKBEN [?] ?
On the right side is written:
Margaret [damaged]
Harold [damaged, possibly beginning with W]
Elmer THOMPSON
Georgia [possibly Georgie] ---
Dorothy [illegible]
Florence DEVORE
Raymond REED [?]
Robert [NEAL?]
Ellsworth BR-[illegible/damaged]
--- GRIST [?]
Mary ---
Robert AYERS [?]
Hillman [?] JOHNSON [?]
"Taken at [3rd?] Ward School
Miss BUCCHTOLD
6th grade teacher"
Elmer Ellsworth THOMPSON was born on 10 March 1908. and died in 1988. In the photograph, he is standing second from left in the third row from the front.
According to the 1920 census, Nellie BEIGHTOL, age 35, was a school teacher in a public school. She boarded with the widowed Nellie PHILLIPS and her two young sons in their house at 722 Eleventh Ave. in New Brighton (ward 4).
Photograph courtesy E. Froberg.
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