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Girls' Gym Class

Date: 1900
Description: Girls playing basketball outdoors at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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Brown Jug School Students

Date: 09 08 1925
Description: Brown Jug School students lined up along a fence outside a school house. One of the boys is wearing a cowboy hat and bandana.
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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Class Outside One Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1877
Description: Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse.
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Lodi School Students Posed by Age

Date: 1877
Description: Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b...
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Pechanga Day School

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Description: Students and teachers in front of Pechanga day school at Mission Agency.
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Large Group of Children Posing Outdoors

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Description: Group portrait of a large group of children with a woman standing outside on a hill.
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Freedom School

Date: 1964
Description: Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer.
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Nurse with School Group

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Description: Theta Mead posed outside a log cabin schoolhouse with a teacher and her class. One of the girls has her arm around a dog.
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School Bus at Oldest School House

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: Children disembark from an International Model C-30 school bus parked in front of the "oldest [frame] school house" in America. The bus was one of seven ow...
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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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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...
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Group in front of School House

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Description: Large group of children and two women standing in neat rows with two women outside of fence in front of a brick building that appears to be a country schoo...
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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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Fennimore District #5 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posed on lawn in front of clapboard school building. An outhouse and shed are behind the building on the right and left.
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Fennimore District #7 School Building

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Description: Group of students sitting and standing along fence in front of a clapboard one-room school. The teacher stands behind them near the front door which has ro...
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Glen Haven District #1 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posing on grounds in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. There is a fence and outhouse on the left, and in the background is a ...

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