[Victoria School House - Little Stone School House]

Image of a Union Jack flag covering the plaque on the "Victoria School House" or "Little Stone School House." A man appears to be reading off of a piece of paper. From the SCAA: "The "Little Stone School House", or Victoria School House was originally built in 1888. During 1887 plans were made by the Saskatoon Board of Trustees to acquire a permanent site for a school in Saskatoon. Five lots were secured for the purpose and by an Order-in-Council of July, 1888 the School District was authorized to borrow $1,200 for the purpose of building the school. The school house was designed and constructed that same year by local stone mason Alexander Marr. The building consists of one large classroom, heated by a pot-bellied iron stove and an ante-room for clothes and equipment. It was originally located on the southwest corner of Broadway and 12th Street. After the construction of the larger Victoria School in 1909 on the same site the one room school was no longer needed. Rather than tear down the historic building, W. P. Bate proposed that it be relocated. The local chapter of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire took up the proposal, and within a short time the University offered a suitable place on campus for the little building. It was soon dismantled and rebuilt stone by stone at its present location. At the completion of the relocation a brass plate was placed on the door of the school house.It reads: "The First School House in Saskatoon Built in 1887 And Moved to its Present Site, 1911 By The Daughters of the Empire And Presented by Them to the University of Saskatchewan To Commemorate the Coronation of George V." "Victoria School House (Little Stone School House)," Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, University of Saskatchewan, Accessed February 14, 2013, http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/uofs_buildings/, President / etc.; c. 1915; "RP" (Real Photo postcard): "Real-photo postcards [. . .] are the result of developing a negative onto photo paper with a pre-printed postcard backing. Classic real-photo cards feature a variety of subjects, from mundane small- town street views to images of animals to photos that captured important political moments or terrifying natural disasters. Though the first documented photo postcard was mailed in 1899, the style wasn't firmly established until Eastman Kodak began selling Velox photo paper with a pre-printed postcard back in 1902. The following year, Kodak released its No. 3A Folding Pocket camera, which used film specifically designed for postcard-size prints. Amateur photographers were now able to have their own images printed directly onto postcard paper and send them through the mail. The affordability and ease of producing these new photo postcards quickly made traditional cabinet cards obsolete." "Real Photo Postcards," Collector's Weekly, accessed December 17, 2012, http://www.collectorsweekly.com/postcards/real-photo