A fantastic playing and sounding vintage parlor. By 1966, the one-room country school had become a thing of the past. Back & Sides: Solid Oak Top: Solid Spruce Lower Bout: 13.0' Scale Length: 25.0' Nut Width: 1 7/8' Notes: Circa 1920s Lyon & Healy parlor (concert) model. Tags can be issued by KHP troopers, sheriff’s deputies, or KDWPT game wardens. Gorgeous Brazilian rosewood back and sides, bound with white celluloid. School districts consolidated, pooling their resources to provide more teachers, broader curriculum, and opportunity for extracurricular activities. 1926 Lyon & Healy manufactured Washburn Model 5202 Concert size Parlor Guitar. Equipped with little more than a blackboard and a few textbooks, teachers passed on to their pupils cultural values along with a sound knowledge of the three Rs.īy the turn of the century, the population began to shift to the cities and country schools began to lose students and tax support.

She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. 1910 Lyon and Healy Lakeside Parlor Acoustic Guitar. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English.

They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. 1880s Lyon and Healy parlor guitar in incredibly good shape. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. szyzygy Lyon-Healy 1890s Arion Parlor Guitar Pics by szyzygy » Monday 18 January 2010, 22:11 pm Here are some photos of an old Arion parlor guitar I picked up in 1991-92 in MA. For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas. 2,000.00 Lyon and Healy Shamrock Harp and cover in excellent condition, minus one string that needs replacing.

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