Winona, Minnesota, circa 1898, courtesy the Library of Congress.
Since my dad said he thought Martha Wick had not started teaching until she went to Washington state (where he now lives), I wanted to confirm what I thought about when Martha Wick had finished her teaching training in Minnesota. On June 11, 1904, the St. Paul Globe announced on June 12, that Martha Moller Wick of Jackson county had completed the Elementary Graduate Course at the Winona Normal School in the town of the same name. I am off to find pictures of it, and of any other information about the class. I should be back in 15 minutes on less. Enjoy the Time-Delimited Poster in the meantime:
The pictures I have found so far of Winona Normal School are from before or after the time she was here. Still here, thanks to the Minnesota Historical Society are two pictures. One a photograph from the 1890s shows the strict gender divisions that defined teaching of the time:
Notice men on left of photo, women on right. And notice the class size. Personal, not so much.
And here is one that shows the campus becoming colorful and pretty in the 1910s (thanks to cheap synthetic color dyes making such images affordable):
Okay, my bed time has come (later I suspect that those of normal school students but still necessary.
More soon.
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