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Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Photograph

Students Boarding D-40 School Bus

Date: 1938
Description: Students waiting in line to board an International D-40 school bus at a school. The 60 passenger bus was equipped with a 235-inch wheel base and an Olympia...
Photograph

School at Brothertown

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Description: Exterior view of the school at Brothertown. with students and teacher posed outdoors around the front steps.
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New Fane School

Date: 1932
Description: Thirteen students and their teacher, Marie Adams, pose at the side of the New Fane School. They are wearing coats and hats. The school is a singe-story bri...
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Boy Milking a Cow

Date: 1935
Description: Ivan Rhyner, 13, milks a Brown Swiss cow out of doors, near a gate on his father's farm. Other cows observe from the opposite side of the fence. The photog...
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Children Playing

Date: 1935
Description: Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ...
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Esther Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Esther Peterson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses leaning against a tree on a hill while holding a baseball bat. There is a road and f...
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Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
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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...
Photograph

Robert Hulburt

Date: 1933
Description: Robert Hulburt, age 11 and a student at Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookield and New Berlin, poses with his heifer in a...
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Flag Raising

Date: 1931
Description: Two boys display the American flag before raising it on a rustic flag pole in the school yard of the Consolidated School, District No. 4. The other student...
Photograph

Arbor Day

Date: 05 1997
Description: Arbor Day activities for school children at Theresa Fireman's Park: a light lunch, a slide presentation, and the planting of two trees.
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Eastman School Students

Date: 1905
Description: Eastman School students, along with a woman, posing outdoors in front of the school. An American flag is hanging behind them on the side of the schoolhouse...
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Group Portrait of Schoolhouse and Class of Students

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of students and teachers posing for a class portrait in front of a one-room schoolhouse.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Schoolchildren

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of schoolchildren and a few adults standing on a hillside.
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Back to School

Date: 1975
Description: Elevated view down road from a hill towards a dog returning to his driveway after the children were picked up by the school bus on a rural road.
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Public School and Pupils

Date: 1907
Description: View of a large group of people standing in front of a brick building with a bell tower. The sign above the entrance reads: "Public School 1905." A fence r...

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