Modern School Collection: Images: Faculty and Staff [7]

Elizabeth, a longtime teacher, sparked Alexis' interest in teaching and they both taught at various experimental schools in New York for many years. In 1913, they left New York for a farm in Hampton, Connecticut, where they lived until moving to the Modern School in Stelton, New Jersey. Below, Elizabeth Ferm stands outside their Hampton, CT farm (ca.1918).

Finding Aid to the Modern Collection
Photographs: Faculty and Staff | Daily Life | Classes | Buildings | Non-Stelton
Voices of the Children: 1922 | 1929 | 1931