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| Keywords: The Shepherdstown "Little House" in Shepherdstown, West Virginia LCCN2015631434.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; The house and a miniature barn were built during the summers of 1928 and 1929 as a class project to encourage children to attend summer school at Shepherd College so that student teachers taking the summer demonstartion course would have a chance to work with children Orginially Professor Florence Shaw supervisor of the observation and teacher-training program decided on a project that would have the children building a small chidren's garden on the overgrown lot in town But with the encouragement of the college president the small children's garden evolved into the creation of a one-acre miniature farm modeled after the farms in the Shenandoah Valley ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015631434 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/31300/31359a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 31359 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 31359 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||