Date Title   Summary
1900 ca Brown School Brown School teacher (unknown) outside school with students; it was torn down in the summer of 1930 to make way for the new SRS. But the little hand-pump on the corner remained for decades.
1910-20 Brown School Brown School in winter
1910-20 Brown School Brown School in spring
1900 c Gustie Metz   Composition book of Gustie Metz (from Brown School) whose grandfather, Charles, settled in Northfield in 1860s.
1930 Betty Heffner Betty Heffner's first year grades 1-3
1930 William Cray, Brown School students William Cray, Brown School teacher and first Sunset Ridge Superintendent with the last class of Brown School students in 1930
1900 John Brown John Brown, who donated a quarter acre of land on Sunset Ridge Road in 1878 to build first school in Northfield
April 1930 William Cray Brown school student William Cray wins Annual Cook County Spelling Bee soon after his father becomes principal; article from Chicago Herald, April, 1930



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