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Interior of Lead Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Five miners inside a lead mine.
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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Potosi Brewery Workers

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Potosi Brewery employees inside the brewery.
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Large group of children and adults pose outdoors at the second annual contest.
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Grant County Arithmetic, Spelling, and Writing Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Large group of children and adults posed on the lawn outside a large brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Fourth Annual Contest Winners

Date: 05 05 1912
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Fifth Annual Contest

Date: 05 02 1913
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Contest

Date: 05 02 1913
Description: Group portrait of children standing. Many of the children have ribbons on their lapel or collar.
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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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Fennimore District #7 School Building

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Description: Group of students sitting and standing along fence in front of a clapboard one-room school. The teacher stands behind them near the front door which has ro...
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Jamestown School District #2 Students

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Description: Students and teacher pose outdoors. The students are sitting on two teeter totters. In the background is a fence and beyond is a farmhouse and farm.
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Jamestown School District #3

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Description: Jamestown students sitting and standing along a fence in front of clapboard one-room school building on a small hill.
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Little Grant New School Building & Students, Joint District #7

Date: 1913
Description: Little Grant teacher and students stand on the front steps of a new clapboard school building with bell tower. Erected in 1913.
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Smelser School District #2 School Building

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Description: View down slope of a teacher and students posing in front of a one-room school building with a plaster exterior. Behind the school are a fence, trees, and ...
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Watterstown School District #1 School Building and Students

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Description: View from dirt road of teacher and students posed outside a clapboard schoolhouse with a front door gable roof and a bell tower. On the left side of the sc...

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