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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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Blue Mounds School House #1

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Description: Spring or summer view of a large, white school house, and a few trees in front of it. Caption reads: "School, Blue Mounds, Wis."
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Views of Stewart, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: Views of Stewart, Wisconsin (otherwise known as Postville or York Township) near Monroe, Dane County. Stewart post-office was established November 12, 186...
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Viall School House

Date: 1920
Description: The Viall school house in District Number 7. This building formerly occupied the site of the present Nakoma school house.
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Small Wooden School Building

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Description: A white building, with three windows on the one side, and two flanking the entrance. A chimney is at the back.
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Danz School

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

Date: 1932
Description: Students pose in front of a small outbuilding near the Prairie School. The school has a stucco exterior and a basement. There is a bell tower on the roof.
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Robert Hippe

Date: 1932
Description: Robert Hippe, 12, in cap and bib overalls, poses in front of the Prairie School. His bicycle rests against the porch of the school. A note on the reverse o...
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Harriet Sundbakken

Date: 1932
Description: Harriet Sundbakken, 13, a student at Prairie School, poses near some flowering bushes. The school building is in the background. A note on the reverse of t...
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Smith School

Date: 1931
Description: The Smith School, Joint Districts 5 and 7, Towns of Medina and Deerfield, stands on a rise. It is a small brick structure with enclosed front porch, square...
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Class Group Portrait

Date: 1902
Description: Group portrait of a school class outdoors in front of their one-room schoolhouse.
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Former Teachers of White School Return

Date: 05 22 1965
Description: Fourteen former teachers who taught at White School are posing in front of the school, a one-room school house located on Highway PD at Mound View Road, be...
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Old Halfway Prairie Schoolhouse

Date: 04 1980
Description: Back of a classroom at the Old Halfway Prairie Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse, which operated from 1844 until 1961. In the front of the room is a wood...
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Hanerville Oak

Date: 1955
Description: A large, spreading bur oak standing directly in the intersection of Hammond and Hanerville Roads, both unpaved. There is a row of smaller trees lining Hane...
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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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