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  • Collection: Derby Schools through 1953

52A Derby School Bus 1940s Maurine Holt.jpg
Frank Simonsen was the bus driver for the Derby School bus in the 1940s.

558 Derby School 1890s Museum.jpg
A Derby School class in the 1890s outside the second schoolhouse for Derby, located at the current site of the Derby Historical Museum.

1396 School on the Hills slide 1890s Museum.jpg
The students of the "school on the hill" in the 1890s.

261 Derby School Class Feb 1899 Genev Reed.jpg
A glimpse inside the Derby school on Feb. 24, 1899. The teacher was J. W. Swaney. If you look close at the chalkboard, the class was learning about the sense of smell.

This school building was destroyed in in 1903 by a tornado.

4929 Envelope for Eighth Grade Diploma Ella Pittman 1923 Inv. 23-05104 Peggy Sargeant Roseberry through Mildred Gasaway _ museum.jpg
This is the envelope Ella Pittman's eighth grade diploma came in from County Superintendent R. M. Crum's office. She wrote all the names of the Derby graduates on the back of the envelope.

Graduates: Ruth Sawin, Orpha Brian, Ella Pittman, Agnes…

4926 diploma page without ribbon of 4923 1923 Derby Eighth Grade Diploma Ella Pittman 15 May 1923 Inv. 23-050103 Peggy Sargeant Roseberry through Mildred Gasaway _ museum.jpg
Kansas Public Schools

Sedgwick County

This Certifies That Ella Pittman has completed the Course of Study prescribed for the Common Schools of the State of Kansas and is therefore entitled to this

Diploma

Given at Wichita, Kansas, this…

1689 Eight Grade Graduation 1933 Ivan Pendell.jpg
The eighth grade graduation of the Derby grade and rural schools was held on May 22, 1933.

Eighth Grade
Graduation
of
Derby Grade and Rural Schools
High School Auditorium
Monday Evening, May 22, 1933

Program

Processional..........Lee…
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