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Postcard

Boy Holding Bells

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of an unidentified boy. He wears a hat and a woolen jumpsuit, and holds some bells in his hands. In the backgrou...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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

Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose outside clapboard one-room schoolhouse. There appears to be a bell tower on the roof.
Photograph

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.
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Patriotic Poster No. 1

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts...
Photograph

Stockholm Village School

Date: 1905
Description: Students and teachers standing outside two-story brick Public School building.
Photograph

Christmas Card with Scene of Fort Ruins

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Description: A Christmas Card with two views. The on on the left is featuring an image of a girl sledding while wearing winter gear, and on the right is a photograph of...
Photograph

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.
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus with a walking stick, and a little girl. Santa is wearing a long red fur-trimmed coat and a red hat, and is carrying a sack...
Print

Plan a Paid-For Christmas, Join the Christmas Club

Date: 1912
Description: Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c...
Print

Loving Greeting to My Valentine

Date: 1895
Description: Valentine's Day card with three, die cut pieces. The middle piece is a sleigh pulled by one horse. There are three children in the sleigh; one boy is drivi...
Photograph

High School

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Description: The high school building erected in 1908. The building features three stories, a bell tower, and a hip roof. A small child stands in front of the building.
Photograph

High School

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Description: Exterior view of the Cashton High School with bell tower. A woman looks out the window above the entrance, and a group of children and teenagers pose along...
Photograph

Hillcrest School

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

Excelsior Public School

Date: 1909
Description: View across road of school children and a man and a woman standing in front of the two-story public school. There is a bell tower above the entrance. A num...
Photograph

District School House in the Woods

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: Exterior view of the district school house property, with a young boy standing on the front steps. There is a hand-pump on a wood platform in front of the ...
Print

A Typical Country District School House in Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (left) and back (right) of a promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "A typical cou...

Photograph

Bell Dedication

Date: 08 1995
Description: "At the Theresa Historical Society grounds, Les Beck and John Bodden dedicate an 800-lb. bell that called children to school for 65 years at the Theresa Pu...

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