Students are picking up trash on the grounds of a school in this 9-1/2" x 7-5/8" black and white photograph. The school is a three-story brick building with a fence around the lawn. A truck is parked in front of the building.
Whittier Junior High School was located at 22nd and Vine Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska. The building was built in 1923 and used until 1977 as a junior high school. It was then used as an alternative high school until 1980. Whittier School was named for the American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).
