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A photograph of upside down metal buckets and what looks like sheets drying on a clothesline.
1935
Another photograph of John Allen McDonald, the postmaster, in the doorway of the Alpine Post Office. This picture is zoomed out, which gives the viewer a better view of the wood building.
1935
Five people are posing in the window of a classroom in the Alpine Institute. There are four girls, two of which look quite young, and one man who is possibly the teacher.
1935
Image of two children and a man surrounding the well next to the manse at the Alpine Institute. Pictured from left to right are Elizabeth MacMillan, Jim MacMillan, and an unknown man.
1935
Scenic overlooks, multiple homes, people, the Alpine Institute and structures afficliated with the school, ranchers on a farm, and a baseball game. Dr. Hugh W. MacMillan ; From the donation letter: Dr. MacMillan was a dentist from Cincinnati, Ohio who went down at the request of the board to give the students dental check-ups. Dr. MacMillan died in 1992 at the age of 101, and left this collection behind. Overton County, From state plaque - Alpine School - Organized by Dr. John L. Dillard on the top of Alpine Mountain in 1821, the school was moved off the mountain after the Civil War and named Alpine Institute. A. H. Roberts, later governor, taught there in the early 1890s. The school was revived in 1917 by the Board of the National Missions of the U.S.A. Presbyterian Church. The elementary school in 1936 and the high school in 1946 were turned over to Overton County. Notes - the photos from 1992 show the rubble of the school.
1930
Photograph of the Christ Church Presbyterian under construction while Luther Ledbetter was caretaker of the building.
1935
Image of the Christ Church Presbyterian as it was being constructed.
1935
Photograph of a local dispensary which also contained rooms for a nurse and a teacher near Alpine Institute
1935
This photograph shows fifteen students of the Alpine Institute of various ages. Some of them hold books or lunchboxes. From left to right appear Shirley Thomas, Thomas Smith, Frank Beaty, Robert Ferrell, Jr., Clifford Jones, Irvin Ledbetter, Tilgard Smith, and an unknown boy. The back row from left to right appears an unknown boy, (?) Lacy, Johnny Crawford, Gilbert Smith, Dow Williamson, Fred McDonald and Fred Smith..
1935
A photograph of the front entrance of Miller Hall at the Alpine School.
1935