From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Searsport, Maine 213
The image shows a teacher and several schoolchildren posed in front of a rural school building. There also appearts to be a graveyard to the right of the schoolhouse. This may be the Nichols District School in the eastern part of Searsport, which was replaced by a one-story wooden schoolhouse in 1919. The building pictured is an especially tall building with large windows, which must have allowed for high ceilings and good daylight in the classrooms. Two entrances reflect what was probably the segregation of boys and girls. The building's smooth and stark brick walls contrast with its rusticated granite foundation. The scale of the building seems to dwarf the teacher and her pupils. The childrens' clothing-- driver's caps on the boys and white pinafores on the girls- suggests an 1890 to 1910 time period.
