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Old Abe Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1904
Description: Chromolithograph of Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle. The title reads: "Memorial Day in Wisconsin Schools."
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map of Green Bay and Fort Howard

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, and the East River. A reference key at the ...
Map or Atlas

Panoramic View of Fountain City, Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background.
Photograph

Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults are sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
Photograph

Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
Photograph

School for the Blind

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Description: Institution for the Education of the Blind.
Photograph

Boy Holding Chicken

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Description: A young boy holding a chicken near a river.
Photograph

Milking a Cow at Children's Camp

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Description: Barbara King, 5-years-old, milking a cow and feeding a cat at the Highlander Folk School Children's Camp.
Photograph

Child Milking Cow

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Description: A child from the East Tennessee Farmers Union milking a cow covered with flies.
Photograph

Myles Horton Searching for Doodle Bugs

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Description: Myles Horton doodling for doodle bugs outside the Highlander Library.
Photograph

Augville Workers Discussion at Highlander

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Description: Augville workers at Highlander Folk School. Lower left, southern director leading a discussion.
Photograph

Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
Photograph

Children of the Wilder Strikers at Highlander

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Description: Early photograph from Highlander Folk School. Children of the Wilder Strikers. J.D. Marlowe, fifth from right.
Photograph

Perry and Elsie Horton with Dogs

Date: 1937
Description: Perry and Elsie Horton, parents of Myles Horton, with fox hounds, at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Temperance Group at Willard School

Date: 07 17 1909
Description: Field trip to Emma Willard's home near Janesville by the 18th annual convention of the Loyal Temperance League of Wisconsin. The sign on one of the wagons...
Photograph

Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
Photograph

Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: At left, Billy Powers of 306 Norris Court shows his butterfly collection to classmate Dennis Rose, 1028 Clymer Place. The butterfly collection won first p...
Photograph

Opossum at Lincoln School

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Three girls from Lincoln School pose with an opossum that escaped from its cage. The students are, left to right, Nancy Hagen, Jean Diane Gutzman, and Jane...
Photograph

Upper Beetown School

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Description: View from field of two horses grazing near a fence in the area outside the clapboard school building. There is a small outhouse on the far left. A hill wit...
Photograph

Mount Ida School District #4 School Building

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Description: A teacher, students, and a dog are carefully arranged on and around a two-story clapboard school building and school grounds. Young trees are planted on th...

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