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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Roany House

Date: 1910
Description: House owned by Melvin Garthwaite of Bloomington, Wisconsin.
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Shoestring School

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Description: View of the one-room schoolhouse, located 2 1/2 miles south of Dickeyville.
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Saint Clara Academy

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Saint Clara Academy. Caption reads: "Grotto of Our Lade of Lourdes, Saint Clara Academy, Sinsinawa Wiscons...
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Vine-Covered House

Date: 1930
Description: Vine-covered home in the Potosi area.
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Tufa Falls

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Description: View of Tufa Falls.
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Beetown School District #6

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Description: View from road of Budworth one-room white clapboard schoolhouse, built in 1888. The building sits between a wood shed and an outhouse, with open fields bey...
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Beetown School District #7

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Description: A man stands behind a fence and in front of a clapboard schoolhouse and outhouse on a hill. There is a bell tower on the school building.
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Bloomington School District #2

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Description: View from crossroads of the one-room Bloomington School surrounded by trees. A small girl stands near the front door.
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South Lancaster School Disrict #8 School District

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Description: View from road of a stone one-room school house and shed. In the background is a field and farm buildings.
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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 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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Educational Exhibit at the Big Badger Fair

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibit featuring pressed flowers, maps, drawings, and written compositions.
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Building and Water Wheel

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Description: Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill.
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Reception Room at Saint Clara Academy

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Description: Interior of the reception room at Saint Clara Academy. Founded by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and built in 1852, the academy's reception room features religi...
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Reception Rooms at Saint Clara Academy

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Description: Interior of reception rooms at Saint Clara Academy. Founded by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and built in 1852, the academy's reception rooms feature religious...
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Marian Violet Metcalf

Date: 1931
Description: Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
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Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...
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Class Group Portrait Featuring Emma Schmitt

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in...

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