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Bird's-Eye View of Waukesha

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Waukesha, looking southwest, with insets of State Industrial School, Court House, and Fountain Spring House.
Photograph

Cattle at Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Elevated view of dozens of cattle milling outside the barn at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several other school buildings are visible in the b...
Photograph

Students at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Students gather in the schoolyard at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. A group of four boys is seen in the foreground, while dozens of others stand...
Photograph

Students Outside the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Students gather in the schoolyard at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several school buildings are seen in the background.
Photograph

Dining room of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys.
Photograph

Sleeping Quarters in Boys School

Date: 1893
Description: Sleeping quarters at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, with several rows of bunk beds.
Photograph

Students in snow outside State Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Winter scene with four students from the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys standing outside on the snow-covered school grounds.
Postcard

St. John's Military Academy

Date: 1905
Description: View of St. John's Military Academy. Caption reads: "St. John's Military Academy, Delafield, Wis.".
Photograph

Carroll College

Date: 1890
Description: View of Carroll College, with groups of men and women standing outside of the building.
Drawing

Rankin Science Hall

Date: 1910
Description: View of Rankin Science Hall at Carroll College.
Postcard

Center Oak School

Date: 1971
Description: View from road across fence towards the Old Center Oak School in Monches. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Old Center Oak School, Monches, Wis."
Photograph

School and Church

Date: 1851
Description: School and church, from a drawing by Johann B. Wengler, an Austrian traveller in this country.
Photograph

Hillcrest School

Date: 1933
Description: Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1924
Description: View from the road facing the front and side of the public school built in 1905. A swing set is to the left of the school building. The building has an arc...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Lakes & Drives Around Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin : A Favorite Summer Resort

Date: 1891
Description: This late 19th century map shows the lake region around Oconomowoc in Waukesha County and eastern Jefferson County, Wisconsin. The township and range grid,...
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Map of the Lakes & Drives Around Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin : A Favorite Summer Resort

Date: 1876
Description: This late 19th century map by Increase Lapham shows the lake region around Oconomowoc in Waukesha County and eastern Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Cities an...
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Map of the Lakes & Drives in the Vicinity of Oconomowoc & Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1887
Description: This late 19th century map shows the lake region around Oconomowoc in Waukesha County and eastern Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Cities and villages, roads, ...
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Map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, from the 1930s shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, highways and roads, railroa...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha County, Wisconsin Showing Rural Delivery Service

Date: 1911
Description: This 1911 map from the U.S. Post Office Dept. shows rural delivery routes, active and discontinued post offices, selected rural landowners and houses, chur...
Photograph

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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