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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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Marjorie Quinney's Checkered Coat

Date: 1910
Description: Marjorie Quinney, Richard Quinney's aunt, wearing a stole and a checkered coat, standing behind a Model-T Ford on the family farm with sheds in background.
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Greetings from Ashland, Wisconsin

Date: 06 15 1950
Description: View of outhouses in a wooded area.
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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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Madison Panorama from University Heights

Date: 1908
Description: Panoramic view of Madison taken from Summit Avenue looking East South East toward Lake Monona. Included in the view are the Camp Randall bleachers, St. Rap...
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Outhouse, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: One of the 15 outdoor toilets in the Beekman Quarters neighborhood of Natchez, Mississippi. "'It's been full for two months. We still have to use it or wal...
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Outhouse, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Two of the 13 toilets available in the neighborhood, housed in a small building. Vines grow up the side of the structure and debris is scattered in the sur...
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Wood Pile near Porch, Taylor Alley

Date: 1966
Description: A wood pile is located near the front porch of a house. Outhouses are in the far background.

80 people live in 21 buildings in the Taylor Alley neighborh...

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Outhouse, Griffin Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "Twelve families, eighteen persons, share four outhouses." A window of a house is visible in the foreground, while an outhouse is located behind the home.<...
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New Fane

Date: 1932
Description: Looking west along County Trunk Highway SS (now CTH DD) from the hill east of the New Fane School. The brick school, with its bell tower and widow's walk, ...
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Concrete Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A large concrete blockhouse fortification at Verst 581 with a concrete outhouse next to it on the right. An armed solder wearing winter clothing stands be...
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Children Playing

Date: 1935
Description: Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ...
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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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First O'Dea Family Home on Park Street

Date: 1912
Description: First O'Dea family home on Park Street. The house may have been built by Thomas Aquinas O'Dea. He and his family lived there until 1911 or 1912, when they ...
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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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Fairbanks School

Date: 1931
Description: A simple sign over the front door identifies the one-room Fairbanks School. A flag hangs from a pole mounted on the roof. The top of the door is ornamented...
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Thomas Pederson Farm

Date: 1920
Description: Winter scene with snow-covered fields at the Thomas Pederson farm, near Holmen.
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Hunters on the Pond

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards a group of seven men posing on a dock in front of a small hunting shack in the middle of a marsh. Ducks hang on stringers attache...
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Abandoned School

Date: 1935
Description: A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de...

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