Students at Portland's Emerson School in about 1915 are, front row, from left, Elizabeth Powers, Dorothy Fickett, Margaret McDonald, Ella Brennan, Priscilla Newcomb, Shirley Putnam, Rachel Haskell, Elinor Hatch, and Harriet Markson.

Second row, from left, are Nelson Coe, Samuel Karlin, Maurice Comeras, Charles Ritchie, Everett Dunn, Roydon Maddocks, Norton Thorndike, William Lazarovitch, and Benjamin Popkin.

In the back row, from left, are Dorothy Semple, Myrtilla Welch, Mary Lawrence, Mildred Stevens, Elsie Jacobsen, Doris MacDonald, Annabel Etheridge, Evelyn Soule, and Helen Smith.