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School Clippings (from Newspapers)

School Clippings (from Newspapers)
Mennonite Life owns a wonderful collection of more than 1,700 newspaper clippings related to the schools of Lancaster County. They are primarily photographs of pupils and teachers posing in front of one-room schoolhouses throughout the area from 1875 into the 1960s. Thankfully, many of the students and teachers are identified in the captions. Also included are a number of class reunion clippings from the 1960s through the 2000s as well as a handful of other school-related news articles that appeared in Lancaster’s Sunday NewsEphrata ReviewPenny Saver/Merchandiser, and Shopping News. Below you will find an alphabetical listing of available files. These scans were made from newspaper clippings and not from the original photographs. In some cases only photocopies of the clippings were available, and the resulting image quality is not ideal. The online files are low-resolution versions of the original scans. If you would like to purchase a copy of an original clipping, please send us an email at archives@mennonitelife.org or call (717) 393-9745, ext. 202.

Bart High School 1935

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Bart Township High School 1941

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Beales School

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Beartown School

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Beartown School 1901

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Beartown School 1905 1906

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Beartown School 1908

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Beartown School 1908 1909

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Beartown School 1910 1912

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Beartown School 1910 1914a

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Beartown School 1910 1914b

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Beartown School 1912

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Beartown School 1930s

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Beartown School 1957 1958

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Beates School

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Beates School 1908 1909

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