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Kaminski as Aviation Instructor

Date: 1913
Description: Hangar of the Ohio aviation school of Dr. Rudolph Silverston, formerly of Milwaukee, together with three planes: two Curtiss pushers and a Bleriot monoplan...
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Contract School in Keshena

Date: 1890
Description: Farmer's house with rear of the government Contract School on the Menominee reservation in the distance. The Keshena Creek flows between the farmhouse and ...
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Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...
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Bench Work

Date: 1919
Description: View of a teacher watching over a group of male students as they practice woodwork at benches inside a classroom. The text on the blackboard hanging on the...
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New Home School Exterior

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: Exterior view of the New Home School. What appears to be a horse-drawn carriage stands to the right of the building. Two people can be seen sitting inside ...
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Boys Learning to Sew

Date: 1913
Description: Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
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"Hobo" Party at Woldale Rural School

Date: 1913
Description: Group gathered in the gymnasium of the Woldale Rural School for a Christmas "hobo" party. Attendees are dressed as "hobos." The original caption notes that...
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Children Clearing Land for New School Playground

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b...
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Boys Building Fly Traps

Date: 1915
Description: Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard.
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
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First and Second Grade Class

Date: 1888
Description: First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran...
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Slinger Grade School

Date: 05 15 1902
Description: Students of the Slinger Grade School, pictured with their teachers, Miss Margaret O'Connell who taught grades one through five, and Mr. H.T. White who taug...
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Plum Grove School, Class Photo

Date: 02 12 1900
Description: Front Row: Edyth Jobe, Joe Nunamaker, Tommy Bradshaw, Bob Winnett, Jack Williams, Alex Nunamaker, Lee Winnett, and Ethel Baumgartner. Second Row: Cora Jobe...

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