Contributed by Otisfield Historical Society
Description
Black and white photo of 11 students posing in front of brick schoolhouse. This may have been last group of students to attend school, which was discontinued about 1940. The teacher, Dorothy Whitehouse Ahonen, is not in photo. Students are: Front row, left to right, William Oberg, Mark Mills, Paul Hartson, Gordon Peaco; second row, Barbara Randall, Audrey Oberg, Barbara Peaco, Olga Tikkinen; back row, Carl Tielinen, Milton Mills, Anthony Norton.
About This Item
- Title: Bell Hill School, Otisfield, ca. 1939
- Creation Date: circa 1939
- Subject Date: circa 1939
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Locations:
- Bell Hill, Otisfield, Cumberland County, ME
- Bell Hill, Otisfield, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 12 cm
- Local Code: 2000.37A
- Collection: Coll. 16, Box 1/1
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Teachers
- Schools--Maine--Otisfield
- Bell Hill School (Otisfield, Me.)--Photographs
- School children
- One-room schools--Maine--Otisfield
People
- Ahonen, Dorothy W.
- Hartson, Paul
- Mills, Milton
- Norton, Anthony
- Oberg, Audrey
- Oberg, William
- Peaco, Barbara
- Peaco, Gordon
- Randall, Barbara
- Tielinen, Carl
- Tikkinen, Olga
Other Keywords
- Brick buildings
- Finnish Immigrants in U.S.
- One-room schoolhouses
- StudentsBell Hill School (Otisfield, Me.)
For more information about this item, contact:
Otisfield Historical Societyc/o Hankins, 202 Scribner Hill Rd., Otisfield, ME 04270
(207) 539-2521
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