Historical information
This photograph depicts a group of H.E.S. schoolgirls and teachers in Beechworth, Victoria, in the 1900s. Miss M. Lowe and Miss Cruikshank are identified in association with the photograph. Miss Cruikshank was a teacher at Beechworth Higher Elementary School and was transferred to Brunswick in 1917. The photograph contributes to the visual record of education, students and teachers in Beechworth during the early twentieth century.
Significance
This photograph is historically significant for its contribution to the visual record of education in Beechworth, documenting female students and teachers associated with the Higher Elementary School during the twentieth century.
Physical description
Black and white landscape orientated rectangular photograph mounted on card
Inscriptions & markings
Reverse: Handwritten in pencil "A02866.1" and "1977.2866". Handwritten in ink "To the Folks at Home. What do you think of the H.E.S. girls? Fine lot aren't they? Nearly as fine as the teachers – Miss Cruikshank & myself Mollie". Handwritten on paper label: "This was in Mrs Mollie Lowe's possessions, which she left to our Historical Society. Mollie was your teacher." and "3102".
References
- Do You Remember? Fifteen, Twenty-Five, Fifty Years Ago – Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 14 March 1942, p. 4 Newspaper article reproducing a 1917 report identifying Miss Cruikshank as a teacher at Beechworth Higher Elementary School and recording her transfer to Brunswick.
- Photograph – Postcard, c1917 – Beechworth Higher Elementary School (Identifier 3130) Burke Museum collection record for a c.1917 photograph of Beechworth Higher Elementary School students. Used as a comparative source for the school and its students during the same period.
- Beechworth History Timeline – 1900-1929 Historical timeline used for contextual information on Beechworth Higher Elementary School, including its establishment in 1912.
