Jessie M. Towne, Dean of Women, Omaha Central High School
Description
Black and white photograph (10 x 15 cm.) portrait with information on the reverse side, Jessie M. Towne, Dean of Women at Omaha High School. There is also an ink stamp, Publishers Please Credit Skoglund Photographer. She is a white haired woman dressed in a dark v-necked dress with a white collar.
For more than 40 years Jessie Margaret Towne was a school teacher in Omaha. At the time of her retirement in 1939, Miss Towne was the assistant principal and dean of girls at Central High School. Her father was Solon R. Towne, well known in Nebraska as both a state and local health inspector and as an ornithologist. Source: Omaha Public Library - Biography Clipping Files - Jessie M. Towne
