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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Large group of school children tending to their school garden plots.
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School Garden Dedication

Date: 05 1917
Description: Large crowd of school children and adults gathered for a school garden dedication. Original caption reads: "Mr. Prost making a talk at a garden dedication ...
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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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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University of Wisconsin Students

Date: 1869
Description: Group portrait of University of Wisconsin students, perhaps a graduating class, on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall).
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Catholic School Group

Date: 06 20 1957
Description: Elevated group portrait of Catholic School children, St. Mary of the Nativity, with priest Father Finnegan, and four nuns, posing outdoors.
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Graduating Class

Date: 1894
Description: Group portrait of the graduating class. The four men and four women are seated in the front yard of the photographer holding their diplomas.
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Large Group of Children Posing Outdoors

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Description: Group portrait of a large group of children with a woman standing outside on a hill.
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District 2 Class Picture

Date: 1892
Description: Group of schoolchildren posed sitting and standing on a fallen tree trunk. They are dressed in their finest clothes for a school photograph. One of the boy...
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Large group of children and adults pose outdoors at the second annual contest.
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Grant County Arithmetic, Spelling, and Writing Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Large group of children and adults posed on the lawn outside a large brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Fourth Annual Contest Winners

Date: 05 05 1912
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Fifth Annual Contest

Date: 05 02 1913
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Contest

Date: 1914
Description: Large group of unidentified children and adults pose outside a large brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Jamestown School District #2 Students

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Description: Students and teacher pose outdoors. The students are sitting on two teeter totters. In the background is a fence and beyond is a farmhouse and farm.
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Jamestown School District #3

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Description: Jamestown students sitting and standing along a fence in front of clapboard one-room school building on a small hill.

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