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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214)
2500 East
Fourth Avenue,
80206-4214
(Columbine Street at East Fourth Avenue)

Telephone:
(303) 388-5969
Fax: (720) 424-9355
E-mail: Bromwell@dpsk12.org

Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal

The Bromwell Scrapbook 1885 - 1922

Above: the earliest photograph of the Harman Elementary School.

Above: The front cover and the back cover for the School Census booklet of 1892 for "Harman, Arapahoe County." The census booklet tells us that 226 children lived in Harman at that time, from James Archibald, age 8, to B.D. Zimmermann, age 6. According to the secretary for District 4, George S. Rogers, the total came from 80 males and 100 females between the ages of six and sixteen, and 32 males and 14 females between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one.

Below: A Shady Lane by Henrietta Bromwell. This painting is thought to show the rural Harman neighborhood before the turn of the century.

Here's a clipping from The Rocky Mountain News, September 3rd, 1900, transcribed from Henrietta Bromwell's scrapbook in the Denver Public Library's Western History Collection:

"Judge Henry H.P. Bromwell celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday last week and received the congratulations of many of his friends with wishes for many happy returns. For seven or eight years a little party of Masons has been in the habit of making a call on Judge Bromwell and spending the evening, which always includes a supper. True to their custom Messers. Cromwell Tucker, George Roberts, Job Gregor, Thomas Nichol, Dr. Ellsner, J.R. McDonough and Mr. Simmons of Boston made their usual greeting with the judge, who is said to be the greatest Masonic scholar in the United States."

Below: A sketch of the Harman Elementary School building, by Blanche Mitchell, from The Rocky Mountain News.

Here is our earliest photograph of Bromwell students, from Chuck Woehl's collection:

Above: the graduating class of 1910. Below, a picture of the school building from the early 1900's. Both are from Chuck Woehl's collection.

Above: The fire was said to have taken place in 1911, while this picture is dated 1912. The date may be a mistake, or it may be that it took more than a year to rebuild that part of the school.

Above: a Bromwell school-bus driver with his rig, horse, and a lot of children. Could all those children have possibly fit inside that wagon? Below: the same driver stting in his rig. Look closely and you can see a child's hand at the window of the wagon (it had cloth flaps for bad weather) and the legs of a little girl just behind the rear wheels.

Above: Miss Jenkins' Kindergarten class, 1915. Below: although the people in this photograph were at one time marked with numbers for identification, that information has since been lost.

Here are three other photographs from the period. From top to bottom, they show a group of students on the last day of school in 1915; Miss Jenkins again, this time with her Kindergarten class in September, 1912; and Miss Keller's Second Grade class, May, 1915.

Above: Ruth McGlynn's Penmanship Movement Certificate from June 1st, 1920, attesting that Ruth "uses excellent movement and observes a good writing position in all written work." It is signed by her teacher, Esther P. Dewitz, and by the principal, F. M. Montgomery.