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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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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse.
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Robert Hippe

Date: 1932
Description: Robert Hippe, 12, in cap and bib overalls, poses in front of the Prairie School. His bicycle rests against the porch of the school. A note on the reverse o...
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Harriet Sundbakken

Date: 1932
Description: Harriet Sundbakken, 13, a student at Prairie School, poses near some flowering bushes. The school building is in the background. A note on the reverse of t...
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Martin Gutekunst

Date: 1932
Description: Martin Gutekunst, 14, wearing high boots, sweater, and leather hat, poses at the side of the New Fane School. He is identified on the photograph as the "le...
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Arlene Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Annette Elmer, 14, poses with three of her drawings alongside the Farmer's Grove School. Her teacher wrote on the reverse of this photograph that sh...
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Girl with Guitar

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Elmer, 14, poses outside the Farmer's Grove School with a guitar. On the reverse of the photograph is written "This pupil is leader in plays and gam...
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Ivan Rhyner

Date: 1935
Description: Ivan Rhyner, 13, "leader of highest class in history" at Farmer's Grove School, poses outside the school holding a book.
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Jake Wepking

Date: 1932
Description: Jake Wepking, clerk of School District No. 4, poses in front of the Strawberry School. He is wearing bib overalls and holds a cap in his hand. Wepking was ...
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Delia Benish

Date: 1932
Description: Delia Benish, 12, poses at the back of an automobile parked at Strawberry School. A note on the reverse of the photograph reports that she "Drew landscape ...
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Blomquist Twins

Date: 1932
Description: Twin brothers Glen and Gilman Blomquist pose in the school yard at the Mud Branch School. The boys are 12-years-old and in the sixth grade.
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Gladys Hofseth

Date: 1933
Description: The teacher at Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, Gladys Hofseth, poses in front of the school. She is wearing a polka dot dress.
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The Inventor

Date: 1931
Description: Joe Mietus, 16, poses at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Has invented several home made farm tools. Also has...
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Gene Mayo

Date: 1931
Description: Gene Mayo, 14, poses in front of double doors holding his cap. He is a student at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is writ...
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Getting Water

Date: 1931
Description: George Stallman and Walter Shinkus pose with a bucket at the water pump outside the Tibbets School. They are "getting water for the school." There are hou...
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Roger Baird

Date: 1933
Description: Roger Baird, 11 years old and a student at Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, poses on the arched fr...
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Felix Liburdi

Date: 1933
Description: Felix Liburdi, 17 years old, poses in front of the arched front porch of the Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and ...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Marjory Deppeler. She graduated from the Green County Normal School and was teaching in a one-room school near Juda. She commuted back and fort...

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