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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Graduation Class

Date: 06 08 1952
Description: Group portrait of the graduating class of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church School, 128 West Johnson Street, including thirty graduates, a priest and a nun.
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Holy Redeemer Graduation Class

Date: 06 09 1957
Description: Group portrait of Holy Redeemer Catholic School graduation class, eight boys and three girls, with priest and nun.
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Governor Goodland and Little Friends of America School Children

Date: 03 23 1944
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of Governor Goodland signing a scrapbook prepared by the Little Friends of America, Baraboo children's organization, for t...
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Graduating Class

Date: 1894
Description: Group portrait of the graduating class. The four men and four women are seated in the front yard of the photographer holding their diplomas.
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1943
Description: Lillian A. Heinrichs, Lucille Eltiste, and Esther Goubert receive instruction from H.E. des Granges during "Tractorette" class while Wesley Kollehorst, fie...
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"Tractorette" Group

Date: 1942
Description: A group of participants in the "Tractorette" program gathers around a Farmall tractor operated by Fred R. Walkley, proprietor of Walkley Farm Equipment Com...
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Boys Learning to Sew

Date: 1913
Description: Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
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Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
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Friday Nighters

Date: 1932
Description: Group portrait of John R. Commons and his students during a Friday Nighters gathering at Ho Cheera. There is a doll on the floor at the front of the group ...
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First and Second Grade Class

Date: 1888
Description: First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran...
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Students Returning to School with Corn

Date: 1919
Description: Small class of students and their teacher carrying sacks full of corn. Original caption reads: "Returning with trophies, Elm Grove School." The writing on ...
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Slinger Grade School

Date: 05 15 1902
Description: Students of the Slinger Grade School, pictured with their teachers, Miss Margaret O'Connell who taught grades one through five, and Mr. H.T. White who taug...
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Kindergarten Class

Date: 1903
Description: Miss Konig's kindergarten class. Students in this photograph include: Roland Heismann, Ewald Bierger, Alfred Krueger, Lawrence Margwardt, Irvin Krueger, Jo...
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Students in front of School

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of graduating students and teachers in front of a brick school building. There are twenty-seven women wearing dresses and three men wearing ...
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Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
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Back River Falls High School Class of 1894

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of six men posed standing, two men and four women posed sitting. Probably the Black River Falls High School ...
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School Group in front of Pole Grove School

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Description: Boys and girls are posing sitting and standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school group in front of the Pole Grove School near Alma Center.

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