Created by: Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections & University Archives
Last Updated: 2024-08-09
Collection Details
The Model Rural School photograph collection contains images from the Model Rural School located at the First District Normal School (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, MO. It was the brainchild of former Normal School president, John R. Kirk. He designed his notion of the ideal rural schoolhouse, advocated for its building in 1907, and implemented a new curriculum to provide a better education for county children so they could serve the unique needs of their communities. These images show various classroom activities and school furnishings. For more information about the Model Rural School, see the digital exhibition "Rural Education Innovations in Adair County, Missouri" at http://exhibits.truman.edu/modelschool/.
Painting of small boy fishing from a bank. Artist is Cecile Samuels done approximately 1910-1912 while a student at the Model Rural School on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville,...
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Model Rural School--Photographs, and Rural schools--Missouri--Design and construction
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Teacher Marie Turner Harvey facing two girls, Mary Linder (l) and Edna Foster (r), and three boys at front of classroom reading from books at the Model Rural School on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First...
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Model Rural School--Photographs, and Rural schools--Missouri--Design and construction
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Woman teaches music lesson to seated students at the Model Rural School on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, Missouri, approximately 1910-1912.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Model Rural School--Photographs, and Rural schools--Missouri--Design and construction
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This is the teacher's desk at the Model Rural School on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, Missouri, approximately 1910-1912.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Model Rural School--Photographs, and Rural schools--Missouri--Design and construction
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Two girls and four boys read aloud in front of classmates at the Model Rural School on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, Missouri, approximately 1910-1912.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Model Rural School--Photographs, and Rural schools--Missouri--Design and construction
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
