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Fennimore Joint District #2 School Building and Class

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Description: Group portrait of children and their teacher posing on the lawn outside a clapboard school building. On the left side of the building is a stone foundation...
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Public School

Date: 1928
Description: The exterior of the white public school building. Trees and bushes partially obstruct the view.
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Public School

Date: 1922
Description: The exterior of the public school.
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Public School

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Description: The exterior of the public school. The building features two entrances and a bell tower.
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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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Rhine Center School

Date: 1931
Description: Broad stairs lead to the front door of the one-story, wood frame Rhine Center School, District No. 6. The school has a covered front porch, stone foundatio...
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Smith School

Date: 1931
Description: The Smith School, Joint Districts 5 and 7, Towns of Medina and Deerfield, stands on a rise. It is a small brick structure with enclosed front porch, square...
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Kenyon School

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Description: View across lawn towards a brick school house with children and a woman posing standing on the front steps. There is a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled...
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Disco School

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Description: View towards a boy posing standing in the yard of a wooden schoolhouse, which has a United States flag flying from the belltower. Identified as the school ...
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Spring Creek School

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Description: View across lawn towards a small wooden school house in a field. The school is the Spring Creek School to the south of Black River Falls.
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Class at an Unidentified Schoolhouse

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a woman and a large group of children posing standing and sitting on a wooden porch of a wooden school house with two open doors.
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America's First Kindergarten

Date: 1968
Description: View across lawn towards a man holding open a door for a group of children. They are entering a small white building, the site of America's first kindergar...
Postcard

Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 1950
Description: Text on the reverse reads: "The Famous Little White School House, at Ripon, Wisconsin. Birthplace of the Republican Party in 1854." Surrounded by dwellings...
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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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