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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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Draining Wetland

Date: 1931
Description: Channel dug for drainage of a wetland.
Map or Atlas

Appleton Wisconsin

Date: 1931
Description: Map shows street map with wards numbered, the Fox River, railroads, playgrounds, cemeteries, and schools. The map also includes a manuscript annotation ind...
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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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Alvin Sebald

Date: 1931
Description: Alvin Sebald, 14, a student at Rhine Center School, poses in front of a tree. He is wearing bib overalls and a necktie. There is a barn and other farm buil...
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Pupils of Rhine Center School

Date: 1931
Description: The students of the Rhine Center School, District No. 6, pose for their photograph in the schoolyard. The girls are wearing good dresses; the boys wear kni...
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Mayo School

Date: 1931
Description: Students pose in front of the Mayo School, District No. 1. There are large pine trees around the one-story building and a low fence in front. A "Mayo Schoo...
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Francis T. Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The...
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Eagle Lake

Date: 1931
Description: Bare trees are silhouetted against the sunlight reflected on Eagle Lake.
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Ohnstein Cottage

Date: 1931
Description: View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se...
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Residence of Francis Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a two-story "boomtown" style building which was the residence of Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, Town of W...
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The School at Work

Date: 1931
Description: Students work at their desks in the Mayo School, District No. 1. A row of books forms the foreground; history lessons from the time of reconstruction after...
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The Inventor

Date: 1931
Description: Joe Mietus, 16, poses at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Has invented several home made farm tools. Also has...

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