Carnegie Cache: Back-to-School

Nicole Docimo

Please enjoy these photos from the Carnegie Library to get you in the back-to-school spirit! Notice the changing fashion and hairstyles over the years from 1886 to 1971.

Above: View of an 1886 Central School class with their teacher Miss Holbrook and superintendent N.B. Webb. Call# 210-2-17, from A.A. Paddock Collection: Schools, part of the Museum of Boulder Collection.

Left: Group portrait of an 8th-grade class at Mapleton School, 1899. Call# 180-1-1, from the Johnston family collection, part of the Museum of Boulder collection.

1928 photograph of a 4th-grade class at Whittier School, by photographer Charles Snow. Call# 720-1-5, from the Jessie K. Fitzpatrick collection.

1956-57 7th and 8th-grade class at Pleasant View School. Call# 610-1a-6 from Carnegie Library Small Collections: Schools. 1971 4th-grade class at Baseline Elementary. Call# 182-1-10 from Elsie Clyncke Anderson Collection, part of the Museum of Boulder Collection.