Activities at training camp. In the foreground in front of a tent encampment a squad of eight men are engaged in making maps. On the image left a group of men are in line to move out of the group of tents.
This is a picture of a train passing the Rock Island School in Mahaska County in the early 1900's. When the opportunity arrived, many school teachers would taken passenger trains to and from work in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
