Schools, and the kids who attended them, sure did look different a century ago. From one-room
schoolhouses to vintage buses, this is what school looked like in the early 1900s.

17) Young women shelling butterbeans at the Tennessee Industrial School
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We're not sure if that's an elective we'd want to take.
16) Teaching soil conservation
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This was apparently an academic option in 1953.
15) Fisk University, back in the day
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This may not be a photograph, but it's neat to see the way it was in the late 1800s.
14) The Perkins School, Knoxville
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Once upon a time in Knoxville...
13) Flenniken School Group
Knox Public Library
It's a trip to see all the long gowns and hats in this photo!
12) The smart Ivey Bluff school girls
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Circa the 1950's.
11) Once upon a time the principal of the Gibbs School lived here
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In 1927, that is.
10) The Lovell School, with all their sweet students
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This shot of all the students and teachers was taken in 1904.

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9) Assembly time at Central
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It was quite the event in 1938.
8) 1921 saw the beginning of the Smithwood schoolbus
Knox Public Library
This. Was a school bus.
7) Here's Central High School administration in 1940
Knox Public Library
They look like an exciting bunch, don't you think?
6) A group of young ones at the Spring Hill School Group, sometime in the early 1900's
Knox Public Library
Spring Hill doesn't look like this anymore.
5) Here's a group of students at the Hopewell School
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This photo was taken in 1905.
4) Music time at the Bell House
Knox Public Library
1913 was a happenin' time for these kids.
3) It was a snowy winter at the Paulette School
Knox Public Library
This photo was taken around 1920.
2) Tech at the Bowman School
Knox Public Library
Can you imagine working with this type of equipment?
1) Powell Grammar School in 1913
Knox Public Library
What sweet little ones - our grandparents, our great grandparents.

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