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Peshtigo Schoolhouse

Date: 1871
Description: Photographic print of a wood engraving of a schoolhouse and children in Peshtigo. From the book "Sketch of the Great Fire In Peshtigo."
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Brown Jug School Students

Date: 09 08 1925
Description: Brown Jug School students lined up along a fence outside a school house. One of the boys is wearing a cowboy hat and bandana.
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Class Outside One Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1877
Description: Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse.
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Gray's Mill School, Disrtict 17

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Description: Small white clapboard schoolhouse in South Lancaster Township, with class standing outside in front. There is a barn on a hill in the background.
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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Schoolroom Interior

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Description: Interior of rural schoolroom. A teacher at the back of the room appears to be helping as students of all ages sit working at their desks. A large U.S. Flag...
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Group in front of School House

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Description: Large group of children and two women standing in neat rows with two women outside of fence in front of a brick building that appears to be a country schoo...
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Bloomington School District #2

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Description: View from crossroads of the one-room Bloomington School surrounded by trees. A small girl stands near the front door.
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Fennimore District School Building & Class

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Description: A group of children with their teacher posing on the lawn outside a one-room school building.
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Fennimore Joint District #2 School Building and Class

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Description: Group portrait of children and their teacher posing on the lawn outside a clapboard school building. On the left side of the building is a stone foundation...
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Fennimore District #4 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road of a woman standing in the doorway of a stone one-room schoolhouse. An outhouse is behind the school.
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Fennimore District #5 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posed on lawn in front of clapboard school building. An outhouse and shed are behind the building on the right and left.
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Fennimore District #7 School Building

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Description: Group of students sitting and standing along fence in front of a clapboard one-room school. The teacher stands behind them near the front door which has ro...
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Glen Haven District #1 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posing on grounds in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. There is a fence and outhouse on the left, and in the background is a ...
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Jamestown School District #3

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Description: Jamestown students sitting and standing along a fence in front of clapboard one-room school building on a small hill.
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Jamestown School District #4 School Buiding

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Description: View of a teacher and four students standing in front of a clapboard one-room school building. A horse is grazing in the grass in front of an outhouse on t...
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Jamestown School District #5 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road or field of a teacher sitting and students posing in the yard in front of a clapboard one-room school building.
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Jamestown School District #8 School Building and Students

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Description: Teacher and students stand spaced apart in a line in front of a clapboard one-room school building and a small shed, perhaps an outhouse. In the background...

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