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Car Ferry

Date: 1920
Description: The Cassville Ferry with three cars and passengers, crossing the Mississippi River from Cassville to Turkey River, Iowa.
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Cassville Storefronts

Date: 1910
Description: Three storefronts on a dirt road. A man, said to be Charles Grimm, is driving a horse and buggy. The building in the center is Feiker's photo studio. Near ...
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People on Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down unpaved street with snow along the curbs. The Post office is the first building on the left. Other buildings are occupied by a doctor's office, s...
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CCC Camp Scene

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp.
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Beetown School District #6

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Description: View from road of Budworth one-room white clapboard schoolhouse, built in 1888. The building sits between a wood shed and an outhouse, with open fields bey...
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Lower Beetown School

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Description: Lower Beetown clapboard schoolhouse with bell tower and path.
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Bloomington School District #2

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Description: View from crossroads of the one-room Bloomington School surrounded by trees. A small girl stands near the front door.
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Georgetown School Building

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Description: View over wooden bridge of school building. There is a ladder near the front entrance which has a small bell tower. There is a shed on the left, and an ou...
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Glen Haven District #6 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road of brick schoolhouse with porch and small bell tower.
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Little Grant School District #3 School Building

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Description: Students posed around a wood bridge outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Small building on left may be an outhouse. In the background is a hill with a...
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Livingston Graded School

Date: 1913
Description: View across railroad tracks of a two-story clapboard schoolhouse with bell tower. Groups of children pose outside and another group of children look out on...
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Marion School District #3 School Building

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Description: View from road of a clapboard one-room school building with white trimming and a cream-colored chimney. There is a bell tower with a weather vane on top. A...
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South Lancaster District #5 School Building

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Description: View of school grounds with school building with small bell tower on the right. In the background is a fence, and a man driving a wagon.
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South Lancaster School Disrict #8 School District

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Description: View from road of a stone one-room school house and shed. In the background is a field and farm buildings.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: A teacher and students are posing outside on the lawn in front of a one-room clapboard schoolhouse. An automobile is parked on the right.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of students and teachers posing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Some of the boys wear baseball gloves. A hill rises in the ba...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road up hill of teacher and students posing in front of a clapboard and one-room schoolhouse. A horse and buggy are on the hill on the right.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of a teacher and students posing on front landing of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with bell tower.
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District #9 Clifton Schoolhouse

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Description: View from dirt road of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with porch. There is an outhouse behind it near a field. The school was closed as children were giv...
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Closing Day Exercises in District #15, North Lancaster

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Description: A large group of children and adults pose in a field around trees. There is a tent in the background with flags, and two women sit in a carriage on the lef...

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