Name/Title
Center Street School first grade 1914Entry/Object ID
1982.29.1Description
Sepia photo of First Grade of Center Street School in 1914.
Front Row: Roland Faunce, Ida Mack, Phyllis Hackett, , ? ? George Peters
Second Row: Edith Blanchard, Marjorie Holbrook, Mary Nickerson, Mary Strout, Delight Nickerson, Francis Alexander, Marguerite Small, Earle Webb' Lillian Varney, Angie ?, ? , Marie Baribeau.
Third Row: ? , Jacob Smith, Joe ?, Alton Collins, Louis Arquitte, Robert Coolen, Lloyd Joy, Stuart Collins, Charlie Storer, Edwin Hill, Peter Baribeau
Donated by Delight Nickerson Storer
The African American boy standing second from right is Edwin Hill, son of William T. Hills, a porter at the rail station. The family had two daughters, Bessie and Elizabeth, and two sons, William Jr. and Edwin. William Jr. died in the summer of 1918 at 21 of pneumonia, days after registering for the draft. Edwin was the youngest of the four. He was the only one in the family born in Maine (in Brunswick in 1909).
The family lived at 171 Maine Street/Park Row from 1910 until 1933 when they sold the house and moved to Brooklyn. They had previously lived on Everett Street. Edwin and at least one of his two older sisters (Elizabeth) graduated from Brunswick High School.Lexicon
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Center Street School, School photographs, African American