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Marian Violet Metcalf

Date: 1931
Description: Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
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Claire Alexander

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander, 12, identified on the reverse of the photograph as "Boy Champion of 4-H Club" posing wearing bib overalls and a cap with earflaps. Two ot...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...
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Tourist Camp - Highway 12

Date: 1931
Description: A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Headstand

Date: 1931
Description: A girl wearing bloomers and long stockings performs a headstand as other girls look on. One of the bystanders is also wearing athletic clothes under her co...
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School Picnic

Date: 1931
Description: Teacher Marian Violet Metcalf, center, stands among her students as they prepare to roast marshmallows at the school picnic. Picnic baskets and a large mar...
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Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: View across water towards a group of pupils from the Dyer School fishing from the banks of a stream "about a mile south of school." They are using long can...
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Pupils at Dyer School

Date: 1931
Description: Pupils of the Dyer School, District No. 1 pose in front of the school.
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Beach at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells."
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Main Lawn at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View across lawn of a group of women and one man. The guests of the hotel are relaxing under the trees on the lawn of the resort. A man and a woman are hol...
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Draining Wetland

Date: 1931
Description: Channel dug for drainage of a wetland.
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Wreck Near Reedsburg

Date: 1931
Description: View from road of a man standing near his overturned car smoking a cigarette. His coat is lying across the side of the car. In the background is a barbed w...
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Fleet of International School Buses

Date: 1931
Description: A fleet of International Harvester school buses parked in a row in front of a brick building. Each school bus is equipped with a stop sign and a driver. Th...
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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
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Rhine Center School

Date: 1931
Description: Broad stairs lead to the front door of the one-story, wood frame Rhine Center School, District No. 6. The school has a covered front porch, stone foundatio...
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Kermit Schulz

Date: 1931
Description: Kermit Schulz poses in front of a pine tree wearing a three piece suit. He is the teacher at Rhine Center School, District No. 6.
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Gustave A. Schulz House

Date: 1931
Description: Vines cover trellises on two porches of the Schulz house, a large wood frame Victorian farmhouse. There is fretwork in the gables and a band of decorative ...
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Rhine Center Classroom

Date: 1931
Description: Students at Rhine Center School pose at their desks for a group portrait. Most of the boys are wearing neckties. Twins Herbert and Norbert Hornbeck, 13, ar...
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Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...

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