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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

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

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

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...
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 ...
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.
Photograph

Pleasant View School, Brockway, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a fence in front of a wooden school house building. Identified as the Pleasant View school in Brockway.
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

Humbird School, Clark County

Date: 
Description: View across field from board sidewalk towards a school near a hill, with an exposed bluff in the background. Identified as the Humbird School in Clark Coun...
Postcard

Graded School

Date: 02 21 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Graded School, Richfield, Wis. No. 1." A one story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower. Fences and fields are in the background. A si...

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