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Public School

Date: 1913
Description: Exterior of a public school.
Photograph

Mount Ida Public School

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the public schoolhouse, which features a bell tower and two arched entrances.
Photograph

Excavation Site for Theresa Public School

Date: 1962
Description: "Shirley Widmer & daughter, Brenda, check out the excavation for the new addition to the Theresa Public School."
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

Camp Petenwell CCC Dam

Date: 
Description: The Civilian Conservation Corps dam built at Camp Petenwell near Necedah.
Print

Yellow Belongs To Butter

Date: 
Description: Reprint from the pages of "Hoard's Dairyman" magazine issued to influence public opinion in Wisconsin where the sale of colored margarine was prohibited by...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com...
Photograph

Livestock Judging

Date: 09 1953
Description: A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 12 1912
Description: Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie. The map highlights the public and parochial schools, the exhange, and church buildings, etc.
Photograph

Aerial Control of Mosquitoes

Date: 
Description: View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a...
Photograph

Demonstration for Alfalfa Planting

Date: 1913
Description: Men seated near public speaker demonstrating proper cultivation of alfalfa. Original caption reads: "This scene was taken during the Alfalfa Campaign in Du...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the public school from unpaved road. The building is a two-story wood frame building with a flat roof and bell tower with a flag pole on t...
Photograph

School Milk Cooler

Date: 11 02 1936
Description: A man loads a milk can into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler at the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children.
Photograph

Unloading Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries.
Postcard

Collage Postcard

Date: 02 10 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Stoughton, Wisconsin." A collage of three photo postcards of scenes of Stoughton. The scenes are, (from left): "Public Library," "Hig...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of the public school, a two-story brick building in a rural area with small bell tower on the roof above the entrance. There is a flagpole on...
Historical Object

DDT, Compound of Extinction

Date: 
Description: Bumper sticker promoting the banning of DDT.
Photograph

Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Workers and Trucks

Date: 
Description: Group of men posing in a field. There are two trucks parked behind the group, and axes are propped up in the foreground.
Photograph

City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. They are Walter Beck (left) and Jelmer Anderson.

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