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Photograph

Recess at a One-Room School

Date: 09 1939
Description: Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi...
Photograph

Schoolroom Interior

Date: 
Description: Interior of rural schoolroom. A teacher at the back of the room appears to be helping as students of all ages sit working at their desks. A large U.S. Flag...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Exterior View of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior photograph of schoolhouse. Original caption reads: "one room school cost $3786." The building has a stone foundation, a roof vent, and a chimney a...
Photograph

Pleasant View School

Date: 02 1919
Description: View from a distance of a group of children and adults standing in a line next to a flag pole in front of Pleasant View School.
Photograph

Children Playing Volleyball

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children playing volleyball during recess outside of a school building. Additional children are playing on a see-saw behind them.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of two public school buildings. The left building has a bell tower, with a flag hanging horizontally from peak of the roof over the entrance.
Manuscript

What Shall We Do about Our School?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Front cover of University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 dealing with rural schools. The cover features a drawing of two children walki...
Manuscript

A Message from the Officers of the Wisconsin Rural Schools Association

Date: 
Description: Pamphlet published by Wisconsin Rural Schools Association in opposition to proposed legislation dealing with one-room schools.
Photograph

Danz School

Date: 1921
Description: Danz School building with the students and teacher gathered outside. Several students are holding up a large American Flag.
Photograph

School Group in front of South Alma School

Date: 1890
Description: Group portrait of men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school house and possibly the South Alma School. Secon...
Photograph

School Group Posing Outdoors

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of two women and a group of boys and girls posing standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school group.
Photograph

Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
Photograph

New Fane School

Date: 1932
Description: Thirteen students and their teacher, Marie Adams, pose at the side of the New Fane School. They are wearing coats and hats. The school is a singe-story bri...
Photograph

Students with Flag

Date: 1932
Description: The students at Strawberry School pose in front of the school building. The youngest students, in front, hold an American flag. There are curtains and a pa...
Photograph

Dunham School

Date: 1946
Description: Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. The building is built of brick and has a bell tower and chimney, with a front door with...
Drawing

Andy Over the Schoolhouse

Date: 1945
Description: Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. Seven children play "Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse," a game in which they throw a ball over...
Postcard

The Schoolhouse

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of the classroom of the Muddy Hollow School at Stonefield. Slate tablets are on the desks.
Photograph

Fairbanks School

Date: 1931
Description: A simple sign over the front door identifies the one-room Fairbanks School. A flag hangs from a pole mounted on the roof. The top of the door is ornamented...
Photograph

Disco School

Date: 
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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