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ASAHEL CURTIS / WA. ST. HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

What's the matter with teachers today?

Teachers break for tea and fruit in the staff lunchroom at Seattle's Warren Elementary School in 1905. School boards back then hired women because they'd work cheap, and even at that, the pay was a step up from what few other jobs were open to women then.