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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Longwell House

Date: 1920
Description: The Longwell house, residence of Hugh Longwell. It was used for the first school in Somers Township.
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Hillside Home Building

Date: 1915
Description: The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, de...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Group of men and women listening to a speaker at the Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Il...
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Meetings for Mr. Bannerman

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Description: Public meetings for Mr. Bannerman, extreme right, an educational worker from Garner. Center with white suit, Scott Bates; Labor King General, Highlander F...
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Two Men on Porch at Highlander

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Description: Two CIO members sitting on porch outside of the Barton recreational department cabin at Highlander Folk School. One of the men is playing a guitar.
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Group in front of Highlander Main Building

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Description: An unidentified group of people standing outside the main Highlander building. Esau Jenkins, fifth from left.
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Industrial School for Girls

Date: 1906
Description: Administration building for the school. The building has over three stories, and a covered main entrance. Caption reads: "Administration Building, Industri...
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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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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View up hill of clapboard school building with stone foundation. The teacher and students are posed along the railing of the porch. In the background is a ...
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District #9 Clifton Schoolhouse

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Description: View from dirt road of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with porch. There is an outhouse behind it near a field. The school was closed as children were giv...
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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 ...
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Lauralton Hall at Academy of Our Lady of Mercy

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Description: Exterior of Lauralton Hall, founded in 1905 by the Sisters of Mercy. The large building exhibits a porch and an ivy-covered stone shelter with arches on ea...
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Miss Mason's School for Young Ladies

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Description: Exterior of Miss Mason's School for Young Ladies, designed by A. J. Davis and completed in 1856. The stone building features a porte cochère, sheltered ent...
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Bessie Tift College

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Description: Promotional postcard showing the walkway to a building at Bessie Tift College, founded in 1849. Caption reads: "Bessie Tift College."
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Upshaw Hall at Bessie Tift College

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Description: View of the porch of Upshaw Hall built in 1904, at Bessie Tift College. Flowers line the porch where brick columns support the upper story. Caption reads:...
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: A view of the female residence at Hampton Institute. The left side of the front porch contains potted plant,s and three women converse near the steps. Anot...
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Female students garden next to the Home Economics Practice House. The house has clapboard siding on its two stories and there is a porch on the front and b...
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Timber Hitch Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: Two girls standing on the wooden porch of a schoolhouse holding ropes attached with timber hitch knots to a piece of wood on which a girl is sitting. Other...
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St. Coletta School

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Description: View of St. Calletta School. The three-story brick school building features arch and rectangular windows, several porch-like entrances, and a cupola. A w...

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