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Pleasant Ridge Schoolhouse

Date: 1890
Description: Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop...
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Young Boy with Lunch Box on School Grounds

Date: 05 1928
Description: A young boy holding a lunch box has his hand on his head while standing 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

Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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Whittier Hill

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Description: A landscape photograph of Whittier Hill at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd W...
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Cattle at Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Elevated view of dozens of cattle milling outside the barn at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several other school buildings are visible in the b...
Postcard

St. Mary's Springs Academy

Date: 1913
Description: The stone and iron gateway entrance to St. Mary's Springs Academy. Caption reads: "Entrance to St. Mary's Springs Academy Fond du Lac, Wis."
Photograph

Two-Story Brick Public School

Date: 1870
Description: Two-story brick building built in 1870 with arched windows, corner brackets, bell tower with elaborate cut work, four chimneys and fence in front. Inscript...
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School for the Deaf

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of School for the Deaf. School also called State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Walker Hall, which is on the right, was added to the school...
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State Normal School

Date: 1881
Description: State Normal School in Whitewater.
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Fourth Ward School

Date: 1887
Description: Side view of Fourth Ward School, surrounded by wooden fence.
Photograph

Second Ward School

Date: 1887
Description: Exterior view of Second Ward School. Newly planted trees with wood supports are in the yard surrounding the school.
Photograph

Third Ward School

Date: 1887
Description: Exterior view of the Third Ward School.
Photograph

Second Ward School House

Date: 03 09 1881
Description: Stereograph of a wintery view of the Second Ward School House. A student stands at the edge of the fence line surrounding the school house.
Photograph

Contract School in Keshena

Date: 1890
Description: Farmer's house with rear of the government Contract School on the Menominee reservation in the distance. The Keshena Creek flows between the farmhouse and ...
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Aneroid Consolidated School

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: Individuals exit an International school bus to stand in line at the doors of Aneroid Consolidated School, No.3704.
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Beetown School District #6

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Description: View from road of Budworth one-room white clapboard schoolhouse, built in 1888. The building sits between a wood shed and an outhouse, with open fields bey...
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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...
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Bloomington School District #2

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Description: View from crossroads of the one-room Bloomington School surrounded by trees. A small girl stands near the front door.
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Fennimore District #4 School Building

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Description: Wood frame one-room school house.

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