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Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1900
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City created in 1900.
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Acrobat School

Date: 1976
Description: A girl tries some acrobatic moves on a rope at Acrobat School, Circus World Museum, a Wisconsin Historical Society site. The silhouette of another acrobat ...
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Public School

Date: 1922
Description: A view of the public school, a wood building with two front entrances and a belfry. A flagpole, a pile of fuel wood and a seesaw on the left. Surrounded by...
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Interior, Hillside Home School

Date: 1910
Description: Interior corner, with bookcase and rocking chair, at the Hillside Home School, operated by Misses Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones.
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Spring Green High School

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Description: Exterior view from road of the high school, a three-story brick building with an arched doorway and trees and bushes in the lawn in front. Two cars are par...
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St. Luke's School and Chapel

Date: 1921
Description: View of facade of St. Luke's school, with grounds in the foreground and the chapel in the back.
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Bird's Eye View

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view over farm fields in the foreground and town in the distance, with low rolling hills in the far background. Buildings that stand out are St Lu...
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Public School

Date: 1928
Description: Facade of brick building, with stone steps and a columned entrance. On the left near the corner of the building is a cart, and along the side there appears...
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Old and New School Building

Date: 1924
Description: Children play on makeshift seesaws created from construction materials outside the old schoolhouse.
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
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"Going to State" Basketball Tournaments

Date: 02 11 1956
Description: Exterior view of Sauk City High School. The water tower is visible in the background.
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School in Black Hawk

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of a school with a gable roof with bell steeple.
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Tower Rock School

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Tower Rock school building with Tower Rock directly in the background.
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St. Aloysius School, Sauk City, Wisconsin

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Description: Exterior view of St. Aloysius School with a figure on a bicycle riding past it in the foreground.
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Hillside Home School

Date: 1915
Description: Hillside Home School designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 and constructed over the next two years. The school was operated by the architect's family.
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Burning of German Textbooks

Date: 06 13 1918
Description: "Here lies the remains of German in B.H.S." is written on the pavement next to a smoldering pile of German textbooks. A car is parked along the curb in the...
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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of...
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Boy Scout Band

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of a Boy Scout band in front of a large brick building, possibly the old Baraboo High School. The bass drum head reads "Boy Scout Band" and ...
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Sauk City Basketball Tournaments

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: Sauk City School superintendent William Leahy goes over some basketball tournament details with Coach Bob Schrader, while players Larry Breunig and Wayne S...
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Prairie du Sac High School Football Team

Date: 10 29 1951
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Prairie du Sac High School football team and coaching staff, winners of the Tri-County League championship.

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