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Education in Virginia

Public school at Big Stone Gap

Public school at Big Stone Gap
(Accession number: 2001.528.3)

Questions for classroom discussion

1. Describe the building in the picture?
2. What do you think you would see inside this building?
3. If there were people in this picture, what do you think they would be doing?
4. This picture is a post card. Why do you think someone would make a post card of a public school?
5. How does this picture make you feel? Why do you say that?
6. Compare this picture with the pictures of other schools in this section. How is it different? How is it the same?

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