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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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Watterstown School District #1 School Building and Students

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Description: View from dirt road of teacher and students posed outside a clapboard schoolhouse with a front door gable roof and a bell tower. On the left side of the sc...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: A teacher and students pose outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with small bell tower.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of a teacher and students posing on front landing of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with bell tower.
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Exterior View of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior photograph of schoolhouse. Original caption reads: "one room school cost $3786." The building has a stone foundation, a roof vent, and a chimney a...
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Hillcrest School

Date: 1933
Description: Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
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Schoolhouse in the Woods

Date: 1919
Description: Small schoolhouse with a bell tower on the roof over the entrance to the building. The schoolhouse is surrounded by trees. A class of students is pictured ...
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New Fane School

Date: 1932
Description: Thirteen students and their teacher, Marie Adams, pose at the side of the New Fane School. They are wearing coats and hats. The school is a singe-story bri...
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Martin Gutekunst

Date: 1932
Description: Martin Gutekunst, 14, wearing high boots, sweater, and leather hat, poses at the side of the New Fane School. He is identified on the photograph as the "le...
Drawing

Andy Over the Schoolhouse

Date: 1945
Description: Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. Seven children play "Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse," a game in which they throw a ball over...
Drawing

Ice Skating at Dunham School

Date: 1945
Description: A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with s...
Photograph

Defending the Igloo

Date: 1932
Description: Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ...
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Battle Creek School

Date: 1931
Description: Students of the Battle Creek School, Joint District No. 4, have gathered outside the school building for their picture. The girls are on or near the front ...
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Country School

Date: 12 16 1904
Description: Group portrait of children and adults standing on the open front porch of a small wood frame school building with two front doors. Among the adults in the ...
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Belle Fountain School

Date: 1905
Description: Leta von der Sump, standing at rear left, posing with thirteen children on the front platform of Belle Fountain School. There are two doors on the front of...
Postcard

Fern Dell County School

Date: 1950
Description: Text on the reverse reads: "The Fern Dell County School at The Pioneer Village Museum at Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Built in 1883 and used every year until 1955...

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