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Pleasant Ridge Schoolhouse

Date: 1890
Description: Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop...
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Reunion of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

Date: 1880
Description: Outdoor elevated view of a reunion of the Norwegian American men of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at Luther College. They are posin...
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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house.
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Hillside Home School

Date: 1908
Description: Three boys posing in front of Hillside Home School. The Hillside Home School was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 for his aunts, Jane and Ellen Lloyd...
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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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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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Small School with Children

Date: 1876
Description: Group portrait of children and teaches posing in front of a small frame school building.
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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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Dancers at Hillside

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of students at the Hillside Home School performing a may pole dance while an audience looks on. Dance instruction at the school was provided ...
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Jefferson School

Date: 1870
Description: Jefferson School, built on the site of the first cemetery in Janesville.
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Winslow School

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Winslow School.
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Third Ward School

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of the Third Ward school, with students in front.
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School Building

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of a school building with a group of children and adults gathered in front.
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Group in front of School

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph view across road towards a school building with children gathered outside.
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Presbyterian Mission School

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph. Probably the Presbyterian Mission School grounds on the Chippewa Indian reservation. Two boys and a dog are standing in the foreground, with a...
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Avery School House

Date: 1900
Description: Woman and child standing on the steps of the Avery School House. A horse and carriage stand nearby.
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Milwaukee Commercial School

Date: 04 01 1915
Description: Northwest corner of 3rd and Wells Street, facing the Milwaukee Commercial School. A police officer directs traffic in the foreground, with pedestrians on t...
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Aneroid Consolidated School

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: Individuals exit an International school bus to stand in line at the doors of Aneroid Consolidated School, No.3704.
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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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