Black and white postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an exterior view of the Ralston School in Ralston, Nebraska. The Ralston School is a two-story brick building with a bell on top. There are three windows on each story on each side of the covered entry way and a series of cement steps that lead up to the entrance. In this image, a large group of students is seated on the sloping ground in front of the school building. The back of the postcard has written in pencil "Ralston School".
This is the second Ralston School built in 1911. The Ralston Post Office was established October 25, 1909, and the town was incorporated in 1912. The town was established on Seymour Park, formerly the private estate of Dr. George Miller, by the Skinner and Chase Real Estate Company. Ralston was named after Charles A. Ralston, a Chicago industrialist, who was hired to develop an industrial center there in 1909. Source: Dustin, Dorothy Devereux. Omaha & Douglas County: A Panoramic History. Windsor Publications, 1980. p. 85; Ralston Public Schools.
