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Bird's-Eye View of Milton Junction. Rock Co. Wis.

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction.
Photograph

Enos L. Jones Farm

Date: 1903
Description: View down hill of the Enos Lloyd Jones farm with Hillside Home School and Romeo and Juliet in the background.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Beulah Ogden on Farmall Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Beulah Ogden, a participant in the "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, rides a Farmall tractor through an 88-acre farm owned...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Danville Schoolhouse

Date: 05 1925
Description: View across road of the front facade of a rural schoolhouse. A small dog is lying on the entrance's front steps, and the sign above reads: "Liberty School ...
Photograph

Teacher and Classmates Ready to Pick Seed Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of boys from the Walkenhorst School holding fabric bags while posing in a field with their instructor on their way to select seed corn.
Photograph

Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of children in a large school garden working on their crops.
Photograph

Houses on a Rural Road

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1922
Description: View of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple with an A...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple ...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1913
Description: Exterior of a public school.
Photograph

School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
Photograph

Excavation Site for Theresa Public School

Date: 1962
Description: "Shirley Widmer & daughter, Brenda, check out the excavation for the new addition to the Theresa Public School."
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Buildings

Date: 09 07 1900
Description: View across fields towards University of Wisconsin Madison buildings. On the left is standing the home of the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Stephen M...
Photograph

School at Brothertown

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the school at Brothertown. with students and teacher posed outdoors around the front steps.
Photograph

Bird's Eye View

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view over farm fields in the foreground and town in the distance, with low rolling hills in the far background. Buildings that stand out are St Lu...
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
Photograph

Norman Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Norman Peterson, age 11, holds the reins of a team of horses hitched to a harrow. He is a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2. On the reverse ...
Postcard

St. Marys Church, School and Parsonage

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the church, with a parsonage on the left and a school on the right. A fenced-in field is across the street and an automobile ...

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