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Kindergarten Students

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Description: Students gathered closely around their teachers in the kindergarten room on the south end of the school. The open hearth, fireplace, high ceilings and wind...
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Thordarson Library with Fireplace

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo...
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Elroy Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Elroy Public Library. The library opened in 1908 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie with $10,000. On the lower right the cardboard back...
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Mabel Tainter Memorial Library

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Description: Interior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library. The library opened in 1891 and was funded by a $95,000 gift from Captain & Mrs. A. Tainter. On the rig...
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Oconomowoc Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Oconomowoc Public Library. The library was funded by a combined gift of $4,500 from Mrs. Geo Bullen and Mr. P. D. Armour, Sr. Photogra...
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. In the room are reading tables, two carved wood columns, a fireplace, bookshelves, and a nine-drawer card...
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Group of Students Near Fireplace

Date: 1939
Description: A group of kindergarten students posed sitting and standing near the fireplace in their classroom. The fireplace is surrounded by tiling depicting fairy ta...
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Students at Nap Time

Date: 1939
Description: A group of students laying down on the floor of their kindergarten classroom, probably for nap time. In the background there is a fireplace surrounded with...
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Two Students Near Fireplace

Date: 1939
Description: A portrait of two young students, a boy and a girl, standing next to each other and holding hands near the fireplace in their kindergarten classroom. The f...
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Five Kindergarten Students

Date: 1939
Description: A group of five kindergarten students sitting around a table doing work near the fireplace in their classroom. The fireplace is surrounded by tiling depict...
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The Elton Hotel

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Description: A view of several people relaxing in the foyer of the Elton Hotel. The Elton was considered one of New England's most elegant hotels until the 1960s, when ...
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: iew of a woman sitting with a nun in front of a fireplace in the Maude Adams guest house at Our Lady of the Cenacle convent. The room has low wooden ceilin...

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