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Young Girls Playing on School Swing

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

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

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

Hillside Home School

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Hillside Home School. Caption reads: "Main Building, Hillside Home School, Hillside, Wis."
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...
Photograph

West Cottage at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the West Cottage at Hillside Home School with a large tree.
Postcard

Hillside Home School Buildings

Date: 
Description: View from field of the Hillside Home School buildings near Spring Green.
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

School District Building in Iowa

Date: 10 30 1917
Description: Exterior view of an abandoned district school building with a small shed or outhouse standing nearby.
Photograph

Boys Ready for Day in the Field

Date: 1911
Description: Group of boys outdoors with gardener E.E. Harris. Original caption reads: "Boys of the Onalaska Agricultural School, with rakes and forks, saws and other i...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of the Cameron High School. The building features three stories, a bell tower, and a flag pole. A home is in the distance.
Photograph

Parochial School

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior of Saint Francis Xavier School.
Photograph

Public School

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

Have Our Rural Schools Kept Pace?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Graphic from University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 showing progress in transportation and economics and posing the question "have o...
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

Mount Ida Public School

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the public schoolhouse, which features a bell tower and two arched entrances.
Photograph

School at Brothertown

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

Bird Feeder

Date: 1932
Description: Identified as "A lunch counter for birds," a platform feeder has been mounted on a fence post behind Gardners Prairie School, District No. 7, Town of Sprin...

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