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Inch School About To Be Moved

Date: 1957
Description: Inch School No. 6 blocked up to be moved to Lodi.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School....
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Townspeople Assembled in front of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Townspeople and a Ford automobile in front of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama. The original caption reads: "This school house at Alpine, Ala., is a...
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Brown Jug School Students

Date: 09 08 1925
Description: Brown Jug School students lined up along a fence outside a school house. One of the boys is wearing a cowboy hat and bandana.
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Recess at a One-Room School

Date: 09 1939
Description: Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi...
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Far View School

Date: 1956
Description: View of the front of Far View School.
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School House

Date: 1910
Description: Log school house, erected about 1860.
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Stony Hill School

Date: 06 14 1946
Description: View of the school surrounded by trees, out in an overgrown field during a warm season. Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on...
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Stony Hill School

Date: 06 14 1946
Description: Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on June 14, 1885.
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Frances E. Willard School

Date: 1910
Description: Frances Willard School house built in 1853.
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Frances E. Willard School

Date: 1910
Description: Frances Willard School house built in 1853. The image of a bow is printed on the left. Caption reads: "The Francis E. Willard School, Janesville, Wis."
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Westport School

Date: 1929
Description: The Westport School attended by Ella Wheeler. It is now used as a tool shed. A large barn is behind the smaller building.
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Sullivan Public School

Date: 1910
Description: The public school in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "Joint Dist. #4 Sullivan, Wis."
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Views of Stewart, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: Views of Stewart, Wisconsin (otherwise known as Postville or York Township) near Monroe, Dane County. Stewart post-office was established November 12, 186...
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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Safety Patrol Training

Date: 1950
Description: Safety Patrol training class at a rural Rock County school.
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Reed School

Date: 1948
Description: Reed School teacher, Mrs. Orvilla Zillic, and her 17 students pose for a photograph. Built in 1915, the school became the Wisconsin Historical Society's 10...
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Mexican School Children

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A group of Mexican school children pose with their teacher near a palm tree in front of a schoolhouse.
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Viall School House

Date: 1920
Description: The Viall school house in District Number 7. This building formerly occupied the site of the present Nakoma school house.
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Little Grant School District #7 New School Building

Date: 1913
Description: One-room clapboard school building with bell tower. Field and trees are in the background.

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