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La Farge Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the public school. A large brick building with a bell tower on the roof, arched entrances, and a wooden fence along the side.
Photograph

School Store Room

Date: 03 23 1934
Description: Interior of a school storage room filled with desks and other school supplies, including a Smith Sanitary Bubbler Fountain (may be the origin of the region...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of a two-story public school. The basement windows are broken. A tree and a house are on the left in the background. Stacks of fuelwood are o...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of the public school.
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Public School — Construction

Date: 1922
Description: Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction.
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Public School

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the school, which has a bell tower. The word "boys" is painted on a fence behind the school
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Norwegian Church and Public School

Date: 1912
Description: View across road of a Norwegian Church, and a Public School next door. The church building features a tall steeple, lancet arched windows, gable roof, and ...
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Hillsboro High School

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior of the Hillsboro high school.
Map or Atlas

Map of Vernon County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This 1878 map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, cities and villages, land ownership and acreages, roads, rai...
Map or Atlas

Topographic Map of Vernon County

Date: 1928
Description: This 1928 topographic map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, shows relief, lakes, streams and wetlands, the township and range grid, sections, cities and village...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the public school building and grounds. There is a bell tower above the entrance, and trees are in the yard among tall grass.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: View of the public school in a rural area. The front door is inset, and two small square windows flank the entrance. A small structure with a roof houses a...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 
Description: The public school, a two-story wooden building, surrounded by a lawn, with a tree and sidewalk in front. A house with a picket fence is next door on the le...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1929
Description: View of front of the public school, a two-story brick building with a cupola and flagpole over the bell. A cornfield and bluff are in the background.
Photograph

Upper Room

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Description: A class picture with four rows posing outdoors, with a stone wall behind them on the left, and a brick wall on the right. In front is a row of boys sitting...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View down road over railroad tracks towards buildings and dwellings on the left. A family is standing on the stoop of a house in the far background on the ...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1914
Description: Exterior view of a small brick public school on a hillside. There is a bell in a small bell tower above the entrance.
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John F. Kennedy Speaks in Hillsboro

Date: 03 25 1960
Description: John F. Kennedy outdoors with a group of Hillsboro students and residents after a campaign speech. A man on the left is taking a group photo with a camera....
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School Banquet at Hotel Hillsboro

Date: 1930
Description: Group portrait of attendees of the Hillsboro High School's Junior-Senior Banquet at the Hillsboro Hotel. Attendees include students and their guests. The i...
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Patriotic Holiday at Hillsboro School

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Description: Group portrait of class of young students holding American flags posed at the front of a classroom. Their teacher is standing on the far right, and desks a...

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