School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.
Two Las Vegas elementary school teachers pose with parasols near Railroad Park at the end of Freemont street, Myrtle Morstead on the right and the other is unidentified.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. Mrs. Bennett was from Johnnie, Nevada. This picture was taken in Beatty.
Las Vegas Grammar school teachers pose in front of the Las Vegas School. It appears as if there are some children posing in front of the school as well. This photograph was taken sometime between 1920-1941. Site Name: Las Vegas Grammar School (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Nevada State Retired Teachers Association Collection on the book Inside Nevada Schools: A Challenge for the Future (1970-1976) contains the finished book and the research conducted for the completion of the project. Included are oral interviews, articles, notes, copies of photographs, and organizational plans.