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St. Mary's Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Alleged to be the earliest known view of St. Mary's Institute, which later became St. Mary's College. One-half of a stereograph.
Drawing

The First School House at Prairie du Chien

Date: 1840
Description: The first school house at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. There is a fence behind the building, and hills in the background.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1906
Description: View of the high school, with children are playing in the school yard. Caption reads: "High School, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

Lawler Hall at Campion College

Date: 1955
Description: Exterior view of the front of Lawler Hall at Campion College.
Photograph

Abandoned Stone Schoolhouse

Date: 
Description: Schoolhouse at Lawerton(?), built 1859. There is a bell tower on the roof. Several of the windows are boarded up, and the door is either wide open or missi...
Photograph

Schoolyard Baseball

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Description: Boys play a baseball game while a large crowd of spectators watches from the sidelines in the background in front of three stone buildings. The building on...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 
Description: Exterior of a one-room schoolhouse surrounded by rural landscape.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of two public school buildings. The left building has a bell tower, with a flag hanging horizontally from peak of the roof over the entrance.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 
Description: A class of children and a teacher pose outside the school building in the winter.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of the two-story public schoolhouse with a bell cupola and flag pole. There is a wooden sidewalk in front of the school building. Branches and lea...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the public school in Eastman. On the left is a large stack of logs, and near the entrance to the school is a hand-pump.
Map or Atlas

Map of Crawford County, Wisconsin, Showing Rural Delivery Service

Date: 1911
Description: Blue line print. Shows post offices, houses, schools, churches, roads, routes, rivers, and railroads. Includes explanation of symbols. "H.G.M. October 12,...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 
Description: View of the public school with two chimneys, a bell tower, and firewood stacked on the porch. The building is reflected in the puddle in the foreground. Be...
Photograph

Seneca Street Scene

Date: 1912
Description: View down unpaved street with a school building on the left on the opposite side of the street. A board sidewalk leads to a two-story dwelling on the right...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of high school, which is a brick building with a ground floor, first floor and attic. A flag pole is above the entrance which has double door...
Photograph

Residence District

Date: 1921
Description: View down an unpaved street on a rolling hill. Wood framed houses and trees are on the left. The high school is in the background.
Photograph

Bird's Eye View

Date: 1926
Description: View from hill looking down at homes and businesses in town. A bridge goes over the Kickapoo River. The depot and railroad tracks and Main Street are behin...
Photograph

Steuben Public School

Date: 1922
Description: View across yard of the public school, a one-story wood frame L-shaped building on a hill. There are groups of students standing on the stairs at the entra...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1930
Description: View up hill of the public school, which is a two-story wood frame building with a belfry in the center of the roof. Stairs lead to the arched entrance, an...
Postcard

Old Stone House Erected About 1800 for an Indian School

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard view of a stone house with a group of people standing on the porch. Wood and barbed wire fencing is in the front yard. Caption reads:...

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