Page 35, plate 7307. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

S. C. Griffin is listed on the school roster as the carpentry teacher.

Page 35, plate 7307. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

S. C. Griffin is listed on the school roster as the carpentry teacher.

Page 35, plate 7307. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Miss Stevens and Catherine F. Johnson are listed on the school roster as sewing teachers as of February, 1891.

Page 35, plate 7307. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 35, plate 7307. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The man on the left is probably George Louis Farley, principal.

Reprinted from the Brookline Chronicle, June 12, 1986

Looking southwest from Boylston St. On the right is the house of Annie B. Crocker at 136 Cypress St. In the center is a partial view of 161 Cypress St., still standing. The houses on East Milton St. have not yet been constructed.

This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society. Annie Crocker made the land adjacent to her house available to the Lincoln School. In May 1903, students aged 12 – 15 from the seventh and eighth grade were each given a 7 ft. by 9 ft. plot for growing vegetables. Several of the photos from this series appeared in the newspapers of the time.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Visible on the far left are 158 and 156 Boylston St., still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Partially visible behind the school on the left is 189 Walnut St., still standing. In the distance on the right is 244 Boylston St., no longer standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Margaret "Mardi" Robinson, daughter of Margaret (Moloney) Robinson is at the end of the second row (There is a hole in the photo at her left arm).

Walter Ave. in neighborhood formerly known as "The Farm" that was later razed and replace by the Brook House development.

Page 10, plate 7284. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking west toward Allerton St. from the northwest corner with Pond Ave. On the right, the side of 58 Allerton St., later the house of famed singer Roland Hayes, is viewed. On the left is the rear of 4 Hawthorn Rd., both houses are still standing.

The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking toward Pond Ave., Allerton St. is on the right. The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.

In a serendipitous coincidence, the photo includes the only known view of a street-sprinkling wagon being filled with water. The cart was operated by Chester W. Reed who had a contract with the town to water the dirt roads. The water-feeder pole can be viewed by the middle section of the wagon.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The Thomas Parsons School garden project involved the third grade students who were supervised by the school principal, Minnie P. Massé. This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society in 1903. The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The students are arrayed in front of the original Pierce Grammar School. There are a number of older-appearing students so it can be assumed that the photo includes students from the high school that was just next door.

There were two Pierce School buildings, Grammar and Primary. This is the original Grammar building, built in 1855 on the west side of Prospect St. This building was incorporated into the 1904 replacement building for the Primary School, still standing, and its right side can be viewed there today.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

There were two Pierce buildings, Grammar and Primary. A new, larger, Pierce Grammar School had recently opened on School St. in 1901. This building, the new Primary School building, was opened in 1904 as part of an expansion of both schools. It incorporated parts of the old Pierce Grammar School, accessible today around the right side, and still stands today as the Pierce Historical Building.

Facing School St. Opened in 1901 as a replacement for the much smaller school located behind it on Prospect St. No longer standing.

Facing School St. Opened in 1901 as a replacement for the much smaller school located behind it on Prospect St. No longer standing.