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Family of Seven in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t...
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Class Outside One Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1877
Description: Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse.
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Fennimore District #4 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road of a woman standing in the doorway of a stone one-room schoolhouse. An outhouse is behind the school.
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Fennimore District #5 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posed on lawn in front of clapboard school building. An outhouse and shed are behind the building on the right and left.
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Glen Haven District #1 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posing on grounds in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. There is a fence and outhouse on the left, and in the background is a ...
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Jamestown School District #4 School Buiding

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Description: View of a teacher and four students standing in front of a clapboard one-room school building. A horse is grazing in the grass in front of an outhouse on t...
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Jamestown School District #8 School Building and Students

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Description: Teacher and students stand spaced apart in a line in front of a clapboard one-room school building and a small shed, perhaps an outhouse. In the background...
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Little Grant School District #3 School Building

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Description: Students posed around a wood bridge outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Small building on left may be an outhouse. In the background is a hill with a...
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Livingston Graded School

Date: 1913
Description: View across railroad tracks of a two-story clapboard schoolhouse with bell tower. Groups of children pose outside and another group of children look out on...
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Smelser School District #6 School Building

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Description: A group of students pose in front of one-room schoolhouse. Surrounding the grounds is a wood fence, and there is an outhouse on the right.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View up hill of clapboard school building with stone foundation. The teacher and students are posed along the railing of the porch. In the background is a ...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View through trees of a group of children and adults standing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. an outhouse is visible behind the shcool.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of students and teachers posing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Some of the boys wear baseball gloves. A hill rises in the ba...
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Cuba City or Georgetown, WI Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. In the background are an outhouse, fence, and trees.
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Schoolchildren Playing Outdoors

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Children play a game outdoors beside a rural school building.
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Cabin and Cotton Field

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Description: Exterior view of a small cabin located near a cotton field. There is a cemetery in the far background.
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People in Yard in front of a Frame House

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Description: Man posing standing and holding/sharpening a scythe, with a dog sitting nearby. Three children are sitting in the grass, and a woman is standing in front o...
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Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
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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...
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Picnic

Date: 1933
Description: Children and adults enjoy a picnic in the wooded schoolyard at the Cloverland School, District No. 2. Pans of food have been placed on boards supported by ...

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