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[Apple peeling gathering]

Description: Photograph of a group of people gathered for an apple-peeling event, to make them into apple butter. In the image, two men are playing music while a group of seated women peel apples into containers on their laps. A group of boys stand behind the group. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Portrait of an Unknown Family]

Description: Photograph of an unknown family. The parents are sitting with a child on each of their lives while two more children stand beside them. The three older children are wearing dark dresses and the mother is wearing a dark blouse, skirt, and jacket and holding a white sheet. The baby sitting in the mother's lap is wearing a white outfit. The father is wearing a dark vest and jacket with a white collar shirt underneath. On the back is written "Miss Ruth White."
Date: unknown

[Snowball fight]

Description: Photograph of four male students participating in a snowball fight. In the image the student in the light gray jacket is smiling while forming a snowball wickedly at the camera. The other three students are in stages of throwing the snowball over a car to something outside the frame. Snow covered vehicles line the street. The administrative building can be seen in the background.
Date: 1963

[World War One Small Box Gas Mask]

Description: World War One-era "small box respirator" gas mask, consisting of a canvas or cloth face piece, with inset glass or resin eye lenses, and straps that wrap around the back of the head. The front of the mask has a valve located behind a cloth-covered tube that goes over the mouth and attaches to a small yellow metal box containing activated charcoal (made of peach pits or the pits from other stone fruits). The wearer would have breathed only through the mouth, inhaling air scrubbed clean by the ch… more
Date: [1914..1918]
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