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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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Little Prairie School

Date: 04 29 1955
Description: Group portrait of students, Little Prairie School, District #2, taken outside in front of school building, including teacher Miss Vera Frederickson.
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People Playing Golf near Hillside Home School

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Description: People playing golf in the fields at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Class at the State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class.
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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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St. Joseph's Church Eighth Grade Class

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of the eighth grade graduation class with priest, nun and altar boys in front of St. Joseph's Catholic School, 901 Bowen Court in the Greenb...
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Cottage Grove Graded School Style Show

Date: 04 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of seven females and one young girl in formals and street dresses from the Emporium Department Store that they modeled in the Cottage Grove ...
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: A Shrine clown pointing out Santa Claus to a young girl at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Myles Horton with Thorsten Horton

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Description: Myles Horton with his son, Thorsten Horton, in a pile of leaves at Highlander Folk School.
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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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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Teacher Reading to School Children

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Description: A school teacher reads to elementary school children, who are sitting on the floor in a large, open classroom.
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Children Boarding Bus

Date: 01 24 1935
Description: Children wearing winter coats and hats forming a line to get on a school bus parked in the drive in front of what appears to be a school building. The text...
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International C-30 School Bus

Date: 10 27 1934
Description: Children stand near the open door of an International school bus marked "Klamath County School District, Bus No.32" while others sit on the seats inside. T...
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Classroom at State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students sitting in desks while writing on what appear to be slates. A group sitting in a circle at the back of the room are possibly pract...
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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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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View through trees of a group of children and adults standing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. an outhouse is visible behind the shcool.
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Tyler School

Date: 1950
Description: Tyler School District No. 1. Students pose outdoors near school.
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Pleasant View School

Date: 02 1919
Description: View from a distance of a group of children and adults standing in a line next to a flag pole in front of Pleasant View School.

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