From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). Teacher Mrs. Benson is in the light dress and white stockings in the middle of the line. Remainder of individuals in the photo are not identified.
Children stand and play outside the Fifth Street Grammar School in Las Vegas. The school building is the center building in the photo. Built in 1910-1911 in the Mission architecture style, it housed Las Vegas' combined grammar and high schools until 1929, when Las Vegas High School was built. Some of the children are standing in a yard by what appears to be a volleyball or badminton net. Other children are seen walking towards the school building. All of the boys are wearing caps. Photograph taken between 1920-1933 Caption: Las Vegas Nev Site Name: Fifth Street School (Las Vegas, Nev.)
A flag raising ceremony at the Vegas Heights Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, people are identified as follows: Dolly Ruth Wheeler's son (with bugle); Billy (holding flag; the flag was donated in honor of his father, a WWII casualty); Dale, the soloist; Mrs. Wilson, Brownie Scout leader and Vice President of the P. T. A.; Mrs. Sellers, President of Vegas Heights P. T. A.; Miss Jane; Adams Ledbetter, Primary Supervisor; Miss Maude Frazier, Superintendent; Billy's widowed mother (dressed in all black); Edna Lundgren, 2nd & 3rd grade teacher; Roma Knight, Principal; and Brownie scouts.
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.
Tonopah School's second grade class sits on the steps with their teacher, Miss Sullivan. Children within the three rows identified: "In first row: Willie Ryan, Thelma Flemming, Gertrude Stimson, Florence Ryan, Albert Wenzel, Willie O'Flarity, Geraldine Fitzgerald. In second row: Ruth Dunsdon, Evelyn Carlson, Dorothy Anderson, Edna Clary, Kathleen Griffin, Lawrence Metz, Bonnie McDonald, Tillie Evans, Thomas Lynch. In third row: Lillie McKay, Millie Truebey, Jack Howell, Ina Penaeu, Rose Wood, Thelma Rasmussen, Leonard Lyons, Ernest Rupy."