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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
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Pleasant View Rural School

Date: 1917
Description: Exterior view of Pleasant View Rural School. There are several automobiles parked behind the building.
Photograph

Diversified Farming Campaign

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: A group of men and women standing outside the New Home School to listen as Professor Clark is speaking on the subject of diversified farming. He uses a poi...
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Brick Outhouses

Date: 09 1983
Description: "These are the proverbial 'Brick Outhouses' that were found at a one room school at the corner of Fair View Drive and Wayne Center Road."
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Public School

Date: 1925
Description: A one-story wood frame school with a lightning rod or flagpole on the bell tower. A hand water pump is near the front entrance, and a tire swing is wrapped...
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Getting Water

Date: 1931
Description: George Stallman and Walter Shinkus pose with a bucket at the water pump outside the Tibbets School. They are "getting water for the school." There are hou...
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O'Brien School

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Description: View across field towards a small wooden school house in the distance, with children on the porch, and a horse and wagon in the yard. Identified as the O'B...
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Spring Creek School

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Description: View across lawn towards a small wooden school house in a field. The school is the Spring Creek School to the south of Black River Falls.
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Old Wooden Schoolhouse

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Description: View of an old wooden schoolhouse in a rural winter setting. Lantern slide.

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