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Moe Museum & Old Country School

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Moe Museum & Old Country School - (Hy N. North) Sun Prairie, Wis. Visitors Welcome on Sunday afternoon 1 to 4 P.M.-May 1 to Sept. 15....
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Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 1938
Description: Text at foot reads: "Birthplace of the Republican Party, Ripon, Wis." Handwritten at foot of image: "First Meeting Held Here-March 20th, 1854. Ripon, Wis."...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Marjory Deppeler. She graduated from the Green County Normal School and was teaching in a one-room school near Juda. She commuted back and fort...
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Browning School

Date: 12 15 1904
Description: Children of a range of ages are standing with their teacher in front of the Browning School. The children are well-dressed in winter clothes. The school is...
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Country School

Date: 12 16 1904
Description: Group portrait of children and adults standing on the open front porch of a small wood frame school building with two front doors. Among the adults in the ...
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Old Wooden Schoolhouse

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Description: View of an old wooden schoolhouse in a rural winter setting. Lantern slide.
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Group Portrait of Schoolhouse and Class of Students

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of students and teachers posing for a class portrait in front of a one-room schoolhouse.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Women and Children

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Description: A group of four women and a group of children are standing in front of a building, perhaps a school. A man is sitting in a sleigh with two horses on the le...
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Group Portrait of Schoolhouse and Class of Students

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a one-room schoolhouse with the students and teachers posing in front for a group portrait. Snow is on the ground.
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Class at an Unidentified Schoolhouse

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a man and a large group of children posing standing on the porch of a wooden schoolhouse.
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Class at an Unidentified Schoolhouse

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a woman and a large group of children posing standing and sitting on a wooden porch of a wooden school house with two open doors.
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Class at an Unidentified Schoolhouse

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Description: Group portrait of a woman and children posing standing on a wooden stairway of a wooden schoolhouse surrounded by snow-covered ground.
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Class at an Unidentified Schoolhouse

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Description: Group portrait of a woman and children posing standing on a wooden stairway of a wooden school house.
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Students at a Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Group portrait of a woman and children posing standing in front of the open doorway of a wooden building. Identified as a teacher and children at a rural s...
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Disco School

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Description: View towards a boy posing standing in the yard of a wooden schoolhouse, which has a United States flag flying from the belltower. Identified as the school ...
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Kenyon School

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Description: View across lawn towards a brick school house with children and a woman posing standing on the front steps. There is a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled...
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O'Brien School

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Description: View across field towards a small wooden school house in the distance, with children on the porch, and a horse and wagon in the yard. Identified as the O'B...
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Shake Hollow School

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Description: View down road towards of a small wooden school house with children in the yard in front of it. Identified as Shake Hollow school in the town of Franklin.
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Abandoned School

Date: 1935
Description: A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de...
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Inside the First Kindergarten

Date: 1968
Description: View from back of display of people visiting the first kindergarten building. A mannequin dressed as a nineteenth century teacher is sitting in a chair on ...

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