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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A view, from the rear, of the small, wood frame Strawberry School, District No. 4. The school has a hip roof and brick chimney. A car is parked beside the ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Orin Swingle, teacher at Strawberry School, poses with his left foot on the bumper of an automobile. He wears suspenders and holds his hat in his right han... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Jake Wepking, clerk of School District No. 4, poses in front of the Strawberry School. He is wearing bib overalls and holds a cap in his hand. Wepking was ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A view of Pompey's Pillar, a rock formation four miles northeast of Highland. Written on the reverse of the photograph: "It is 150 feet high from the base ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Bertha Swingle, wearing a print dress and hat, poses outdoors in front of a door at her home. There is a large hosta plant on the left and other shrubbery ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Pupils at Strawberry School pose behind a table laden with food brought for the "last day of school" picnic. The children wear "good" clothes; two boys wit... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Russell Wepking, 14, posing beside an automobile. The son of Frank Wepking and a student at Strawberry School, Russell "Won distinction of having Grand Cha... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Delia Benish, 12, poses at the back of an automobile parked at Strawberry School. A note on the reverse of the photograph reports that she "Drew landscape ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Leland Kopps, a student at Strawberry School, sits in a chair near a Victrola-style cabinet phonograph in his farm home. There is a large potted plant in f... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | The entrance to a cave is seen as a dark, circular area at the base of a rugged rock outcropping on the John Kopps farm. John Kopps's son Leland was a stud... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Leland Kopps holds a dog as he poses standing with his father John on top of a load of hay. A team of two horses are harnessed to the wagon which pulls a h... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | View looking up at two boys with two dogs posing atop a bluff at the Charles Gottschall farm. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Russell, left, and Ira Wepking pose as they pause from bringing in the dairy cows; they have taken off their hats, which are on the ground. A small dog sta... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | John Hurda, left, and Russell Wepking pose with milk cans on a farm wagon. Hurda holds the reins to a team of two horses. There are two small sheds behind ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Russell Gottschall, 13, holds a puppy as he poses in front of a border of roses, lilacs and peonies which he planted near the road at his home, Woodlawn Fa... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A view, looking west, from the bridge over the Wisconsin River at Lone Rock. A ledge has been cut into the bluff on the left to accommodate County Highway ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Hogs feed near two corn wagons in an open field on the Charles Knuth farm near Vinton, Iowa. On the reverse is written, "This is a level farm and the land ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Pupils of the Northey School, District No. 7, pose with their parents at a Halloween "Hard-time" party at the school. Many in the group wear ragged or outd... |
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