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One Room Greek Revival Schoolhouse

Date: 1877
Description: A one room Greek Revival schoolhouse with bell tower. A boy is in front, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat and climbing a tree.
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Stony Hill School

Date: 06 14 1946
Description: View of the school surrounded by trees, out in an overgrown field during a warm season. Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on...
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Stony Hill School

Date: 06 14 1946
Description: Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on June 14, 1885.
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Gray's Mill School, Disrtict 17

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Description: Small white clapboard schoolhouse in South Lancaster Township, with class standing outside in front. There is a barn on a hill in the background.
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Upper Beetown School

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Description: View from field of two horses grazing near a fence in the area outside the clapboard school building. There is a small outhouse on the far left. A hill wit...
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Fennimore Joint District #2 School Building and Class

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Description: Group portrait of children and their teacher posing on the lawn outside a clapboard school building. On the left side of the building is a stone foundation...
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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 #7 New School Building

Date: 1913
Description: One-room clapboard school building with bell tower. Field and trees are in the background.
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Little Grant New School Building & Students, Joint District #7

Date: 1913
Description: Little Grant teacher and students stand on the front steps of a new clapboard school building with bell tower. Erected in 1913.
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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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Wyalusing School District # 3School Building

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Description: Clapboard one-room schoolhouse with bell tower. There is also a shed, outhouse, and a small field with a fence on the school grounds. Two children pose on ...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: A teacher and students pose outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with small bell tower.
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Dunham School

Date: 1946
Description: Hand-colored photograph of Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. The building is built of brick and has a bell tower, with a ...
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Exterior View of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior photograph of schoolhouse. Original caption reads: "one room school cost $3786." The building has a stone foundation, a roof vent, and a chimney a...
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Public School

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Description: Exterior of a one-room schoolhouse surrounded by rural landscape.
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Public School

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of two public school buildings. The left building has a bell tower, with a flag hanging horizontally from peak of the roof over the entrance.
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Public School

Date: 1928
Description: The exterior of the white public school building. Trees and bushes partially obstruct the view.
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Hillcrest School

Date: 1933
Description: Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
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Schoolhouse in the Woods

Date: 1919
Description: Small schoolhouse with a bell tower on the roof over the entrance to the building. The schoolhouse is surrounded by trees. A class of students is pictured ...
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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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