Thirteen women are standing in front of a brick school building in this 9-1/2" x 6-3/4" black and white photograph. They are all wearing long dresses, and several of them have overcoats on as well. Anna Batman, principal of Longfellow School, is standing in the front row on the far right. Behind her is Mattie Ahlen, who became Mrs. Branthwaite, principal of Whittier Elementary School.
Longfellow School was located at 1st & K Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1901 to 1931. Built in 1890, this school was known as "1st & K School" for the first decade of its life. However, in 1900 its teachers petitioned the Lincoln Board of Education to change the name to Longfellow in honor of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The school was torn down in 1931.
