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1. 38_7_001-016 - Article

   Article by Dr. Jeroen Staring titled "Marietta Johnson's School of Organic Education and Evelyn & John Dewey's Schools of Tomorrow Frontispiece Photo." The article was published in Case Studies Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 8, August 2023. The School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama is the subject of Dr. Staring's several articles, particularly on how the School, under the direction of Marietta Johnson, became so well known. Search "Jeroe...

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2. FSTC-1010 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph by Dorothea DeForest dated between March 16-20,1915 of a drive in Mobile, Alabama. This picture is taken from a scrapbook which documented the trip Miss DeForest and her parents (Col. Ezra DeForest and Mary Gordon DeForest) took to Fairhope, Alabama because of their interest in the School of Organic Education (Orangic School). The photograph appears in a paper written by scholar Dr. Jeroen Staring titled "Marietta Johnson's School...

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FSTC-1011 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 16-20, 1915 of a road near Fairhope, Alabama. The photograph shows Col. Ezra DeForest and wife Mary Gordon DeForest on a road near Fairhope, Alabama. The picture is in Dorothea DeForest's scrapbook of the family's visit to Fairhope to learn more about the School of Organic Eductaion (Organic School). Miss DeForest took this picture of her parents. This picture appears in a paper written by scholar Dr. Jeroen Staring ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. FSTC-1012 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama. The picture was taken between March 16-20, 1915 by Dorothea DeForest, who with her parents Col. Ezra DeForest and Mary Gordon DeForest, visited Fairhope to learn more about the Organic School. The picture is from her scrapbook of the visit. The photograph shows students playing tennis with the high school building (L) and the Recreation building on the right (built in1912 fo...

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. FSTC-1013 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 1915 of the farmhouse of Capt. J. R. Cross and Eloise L Cross. The couple moved to Fairhope in 1908, and were associated with the H. F. Ring farm until buying a 40-acre farm. Subsequently, the Crosses became hoteliers, operating the Gables Hotel (southwest corner of Fairhope Avenue and Church Street), and then building The Fairhope Hotel c.1924 at the northwest corner of Summit Street and Fairhope Avenue. The photogra...

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. FSTC-1014 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 16-20, 1915 of the Peoples Railroad Company car and service cart, stopped on the tracks in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. This is the northwest corner of Fairhope Avenue and Section Street; Crawford's General Merchandise Store is seen in the background. Dorothea DeForest took this picture. She and her parents, Col. Ezra DeForest and Mary Gordon DeForest, visited Fairhope to learn more about the School of Organic Education (...

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. FSTC-1015 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March, 1915 by Dorothea DeForest of a farm, house, horses and fences in or near Fairhope, Alabama. Miss DeForest, along with her parents, visited Fairhope to learn more about the School of Organic Education. Her photographs appear in an article by Dr. Jeroen Staring titled "Marietta Johnson's School of Organic Educaion and Evelyn & John Dewey's Schools of Tomorrow Frontispiece Photo." The article is available in these Online ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. FSTC-1017 - Photograph, Digital

   Picture dated March 16-20,1915 of (L-R) Mary Gordon DeForest, Helen DeForest and Dorothea DeForest on the front porch of Marietta Johnson's house in Fairhope, Alabama. The picture was taken by Col. Ezra DeForest. The DeForest family was in Fairhope to learn more about the School of Organic Education, and Dorothea made a scrapbook of the visit. The Johnson home was located on the north side of Magnolia Avenue between Section Street and Chur...

   Record Type: Photo