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Two Miners with Candles

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands.
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Interior of Lead Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Five miners inside a lead mine.
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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company.
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Lobby of the Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: Interior view of the lobby. Two men are standing along the back wall.
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Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate - Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Reception room at the Governor Nelson Dewey house, on his estate called Stonefield. The governor's glasses mark a place in the book on the title desk. On t...
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate — Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Master bedroom at the Governor Nelson Dewey house on his estate called Stonefield. On the right side are Cassville President R.J. Eckstein, and George W. F...
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate - Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Looking over Governor Nelson Dewey's account books at the governor's desk in his office at Stonefield are Raymond Sivesind, state supervisor of historic si...
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Howe / Baxter House

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Mrs. W.T. Cartwright, right, and her daughter Jane Cartwright, sitting in the living room of the Howe/Baxter House, owned by Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Cartwright o...
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Classroom and Class, District 10

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Description: Interior of classroom with teacher and young students, seated in desks. Teacher is identified as Sylvia Rottiger.
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Schoolroom Interior

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Description: Interior of rural schoolroom. A teacher at the back of the room appears to be helping as students of all ages sit working at their desks. A large U.S. Flag...
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Fennimore Sewing Class

Date: 1913
Description: Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from back of classroom of teacher and students during a class. There is a student standing at the chalkboard, and the teacher is standing behind her d...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from front of room of teacher and students in classroom of one room schoolhouse. There is a large stove on the right, and the teacher stands behind th...
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Sewing Exhibit by the Sewing Class of Fennimore High School

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Description: Woman standing at sewing exhibit that includes dresses, children's clothes, aprons, and hats. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor of the sewing class.
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Tyler School Classroom

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Description: Teacher and students. The students are posed seated at their desks inside the school. The teacher is Mrs. Rose Chitwood.

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