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Sixth Ward / Marquette School

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior of the 6th Ward School, 1237 Williamson Street, built in 1894. Several people are posing on the road and sidewalk in front of the building with tw...
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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults are sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
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Nambe Day School

Date: 
Description: A page from an album of photographs of Pueblo Indian Day Schools, showing the Nambe Day School. Miss Lizzie M. Lampson, the teacher, gathers with others n...
Photograph

Ondossagon

Date: 1920
Description: View of Ondossagon, a consolidated school. View across lawn towards a large group of people standing near horses in front of the building.
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Raspberry School

Date: 1906
Description: Exterior view of the Raspberry School with a group of adults and children standing outside its entrance.
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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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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

Date: 
Description: View from road up hill of teacher and students posing in front of a clapboard and one-room schoolhouse. A horse and buggy are on the hill on the right.
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Horse-Drawn Vehicles

Date: 1910
Description: View across road toward a number of covered horse-drawn vehicles parked in front of Bickel School, founded in 1905.
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Mower near State Normal School

Date: 1900
Description: A man and a McCormick mower pulled by two horses are posing on the lawn of a building marked "State Normal School." The inscriptions on either side of the ...
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Corn Testing in Cook County Schools

Date: 1913
Description: Farmers and Cook County students headed to a corn testing session in horse-drawn wagons. Original caption reads: "The farmers of this district were interes...
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Milkman

Date: 1908
Description: Joseph Pearson, milkman, poses with his wagon and team of horses in front of the Madison High School at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Johnson Street.
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Horse-Drawn Wagons on Rutted Dirt Road

Date: 1989
Description: Two horse-drawn wagons travel toward each other on a rutted, dirt road. It appears that a woman wearing a bonnet and shawl is driving the nearer wagon, wit...
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Group of People in front of Halcyon School

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a female schoolteacher and two young women posing standing, and four girls and a boy posing sitting in front of a small schoolhouse, prob...
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Scene at Plain

Date: 1921
Description: View of men standing near a T-intersection. The three-story building on the left side of the intersection has a sandwich board advertising "Ice Cream." A m...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
Photograph

Kenyon School

Date: 
Description: View across lawn towards a brick school house with children and a woman posing standing on the front steps. There is a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

Kickert Horse-Drawn Bus

Date: 09 1975
Description: Left side view of Kickert horse-drawn carriage. One child is sitting in the carriage, and behind the carriage a group of children are walking on the sidewa...
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School Children with Kickert Horse-Drawn Carriage

Date: 09 1975
Description: View towards a group of young school children standing in front of a man in a horse-drawn Kickert carriage on a parking area. Signs painted on the side of ...

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