Detroit High School students
Group of students and teachers wearing hats and coats pose on front steps of damaged school building; painted on columns: "June '93." Debris in front of school; boy in first row holds sign that reads: "Physics." Numbers are painted on each individual for identification. Handwritten on back: "The June 1893 class had its picture taken on the steps of the old High School which was burned in 1893, in ruins covered with snow and ice. Teachers: 1. Mons. Sage (French), 2. Prof. Sherard (Greek), 3., 4. Miss Gillies (9th grade princ.), 5. Miss French (chemistry), 6. Miss Munger (Mrs. Murbach) (10th grade princ.), 7. Mr. Bliss (principal), 8. Miss Bean (English), 9. Miss Mary Orr (English essays), 10. Miss Isabel Hull (algebra), 11. Miss Lizzie Shields (Latin) (Mrs. Hause of St. Paul), 12. Herr Miller (German), 13. Mrs. Bishop (12th grade princ.), 14. Miss Leete (algebra), 15. Miss G. Harrah (history and English), 16. Miss Gerls (algebra), 17. Miss Malcomson (literature), 18. Miss Hudson (geometry), 36. Miss Miner (Latin), 55. Mr. Adams (physics), 56. Webster Cook (11th grade princ.), 57. Miss Lyons (botany); pupils: 19. Maggie Boylan, 20. Annie Hill, 21. Lulu Breitenbach (writing girls stories), 22. Nelly Garnsey, 23. Ada May, 24. Mamie Pedan, 25. Clara Hood, 26., 27. Anna Mackie Robinson (Mrs. W.C.), 28., 29. Ida Buchan, 30. Gertrude Howard (Mrs. Hagen of Cincinnati 1920), 31., 32. Miss Hopkins? Charlotte Leslie, 33. Miss Hopkins (librarian), 34. Gertrude Seeley Hill, 35. Edith Yendell, 36. Miss Miner (Latin), 37. Elizabeth Bishop, 38. Susan Patterson, 39. Florence Wilson, 40. Frieda McLean, 41. Emily Hinds, 42., 43., 44. Irene Bateman Coleman, 45. Louise Gibbs, 46., 47. Bell Krolik (Mrs. David Scheyer), 48. M. Agnes Burton, 49. Mary Oliver, 50. Fannie Foster, 51. Maude Yost, 52., 53., 54. Eleanor Smith, 55. Mr. Adams (physics), 56. Webster Cook (11th grade princ.), 57. Miss Alice Lyons (botany), 58. Lottie England, 59. Isodore Hill (Doctor of Medicine N.Y.), 60. Theo Lyster, 61. Jacob Freund, 62. Chas O. Cook, 63. Freeman Field, 64. Dean, 65. Alonzo Clark, 66. Allen Zacharias, 67. William Brown."
- Resource ID:
- DPA5141
- Subject:
- High school students--Michigan--Detroit
- High school teachers--Michigan--Detroit
- Portraits, Group--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1893
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on mat board ; image 13.5 x 16.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- LD/Schools-High-1893
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.