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Images
Metadata
Title |
Little kids in raingear on the steps of White Cliff School |
Image # |
61.8.1.274 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
1929 April |
Photographer |
Fisher, Elliot L. |
Studio |
Fisher Studio |
Location |
Ketchikan, Alaska |
Description |
White Cliff School kids, April 1929 These first graders pose on the steps of the school with small bottles of milk, having just returned from a field trip to the Model Dairy. Old Exhibit label: White Cliff kids discover the source of milk In April, 1929, the Ketchikan Daily Chronicle reported that Miss Mabel Gilbert, first grade teacher, had arranged for her class to visit the Model Dairy to see the cows. Could this group of happy White Cliff School kids, decked out in rain gear and clutching bottles of milk, be that class? The Model Dairy was just south of Saxman, on the seaward side of Tongass Avenue. It was started by Ernie and Lina Anderes in 1925, and operated until 1931, when it merged with the Ketchikan Dairy, owned by Ernie's brother, Walter. The combined operation was called the Crystal Dairy. After the mid 1930s, the Model Dairy site was used for a mink farm, then a fox farming operation. Today, it is used as an equipment storage and maintenance facility by Southeast Stevedoring. White Cliff School opened in 1927. It is scheduled for replacement within a few years by a new K-6 school, which will be built at Mile 4, South Tongass, on the site of the Homestead (yet another dairy!) |
Print size |
11.50 cm x 16.50 cm |
People |
Fisher, Elliot L. |
Search Terms |
Kids Children School children School White Cliff School Education Dairy Rain Gear |
Credit line |
Ketchikan Museums: Tongass Historical Society Collection, THS 61.8.1.274 |