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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | High school, built in 1857 and destroyed by fire in 1899. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Third Ward, East Side, or "Bartlett School." This is probably the earliest picture in existence and is copied form the margin of "an old map." This first... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Third Ward, East Side, or Barlett School, after additions had been put on in the rear. The Bartlett after whom the school building was named was Willia... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Front entry way to the "Washington" school, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Front entry to the Wesleyan Seminary. It was built in the early 1860's on the site of the present High School building. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | School children pose for a group portrait in front of a school. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | The Institution for the Education of the Blind. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | The Institution for the Education of the Blind. Caption reads: "Institution for the Education of the Blind, Janesville, Wisc. Free to Blind Children of Wis... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The State Institute for the Blind, a school free for blind children of Wisconsin. Caption reads: "State Institute for Blind, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Jefferson School, built on the site of the first cemetery in Janesville. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frederick Horn (1815-1893), a Democrat. He was a lawyer and editor of the Cedarburg Weekly News. His years of public service began in 1842 and ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of Billed-Magazin. featuring an engraved view of The Jefferson Liberal Institute. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | State Normal School. A group of men are standing in the tall grass in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view. The church in the left background is the Zion Lutheran Church. The white house behind the bandstand is Captain Leahy's home (father of Admir... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A group of well-dressed women, most of them seated on the grass, gathered for a picnic. They're assumed to be students of Rockford College. |
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