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Photograph

Young Girls Playing on School Swing

Date: 05 1928
Description: Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School.
Photograph

Football Game at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: A football game being played near Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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.
Print

Hillside Calendar April

Date: 1895
Description: Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie...
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

Girl with Lunchpail

Date: 1918
Description: A girl wearing a hat, winter coat and gloves walking through a field while carrying a lunch pail.
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

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

Group of Youth on Way to School

Date: 06 11 1920
Description: Four young boys walking on a dirt road in rural Cook County on their way to school. All are dressed similarly. Two older girls are also seen walking closel...
Photograph

Crowd after Winning State Championship

Date: 1978
Description: "Lomira High School's girls receive a rousing reception on their return from Madison."
Photograph

Boarding R-Line School Bus

Date: 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of four young women and one young man as they board an International R-line school bus parked along a rural road. The tex...
Photograph

Children Exiting an International School Bus

Date: 1930
Description: View down side of road of a group of children exiting an International school bus. On the front and side of the bus is painted the "International" emblem. ...
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 ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Photograph

High Jump

Date: 1932
Description: A boy is caught mid-air in his approach to the high jump. Many other children and adults watch. One man identifiable by the "W" on his sweater is a student...
Photograph

Hixton School in Winter

Date: 
Description: View along fence line snow-covered field towards a three story building in the distance on the left. Identified as the Hixton school towards Sechlerville.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

New Holy Name Seminary at 702 S. High Point Road

Date: 09 15 1964
Description: The new $3 million Holy Name Seminary, located at 702. S. High Point Road in Madison, is ready for its first class of 205 students.
Photograph

Old Wooden Schoolhouse

Date: 
Description: View of an old wooden schoolhouse in a rural winter setting. Lantern slide.

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