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Madison Panorama from University Heights

Date: 1908
Description: Panoramic view of Madison taken from Summit Avenue looking East South East toward Lake Monona. Included in the view are the Camp Randall bleachers, St. Rap...
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

Public School

Date: 1925
Description: A one-story wood frame school with a lightning rod or flagpole on the bell tower. A hand water pump is near the front entrance, and a tire swing is wrapped...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of the public school, a two-story brick building in a rural area with small bell tower on the roof above the entrance. There is a flagpole on...
Photograph

Bird's Eye View

Date: 1926
Description: View from hill looking down at homes and businesses in town. A bridge goes over the Kickapoo River. The depot and railroad tracks and Main Street are behin...
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...
Postcard

Elevated View of Bagley, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of town showing homes and businesses. A windmill is in the foreground. The school is on the far edge of town on the lef...
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
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...
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.
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...
Postcard

Bird's Eye View of Sherry, Wisconsin

Date: 10 03 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Bird's Eye View, Sherry, Wisconsin." Slightly elevated view across a field towards a small town with four locations marked in ink. "L...

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