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Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
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Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook

Date: 1906
Description: Informal portrait of Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook seated at a desk in front of a classroom full of students.
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Miles School

Date: 1931
Description: Pupils and their teacher (rear) pose in front of their school house. Two cars are parked in the school yard. A man and other pupils stand near a water pump...
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Students at Their Desks

Date: 1933
Description: Students sitting at their desks with their books open at Potter School, District No. 3. Magazines and newspapers hang on a line strung against the back wal...
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students pose in front of a small outbuilding near the Prairie School. The school has a stucco exterior and a basement. There is a bell tower on the roof.
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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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Students at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room.
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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...
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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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The School Children at Dinner

Date: 1932
Description: Students at the New Fane school pose in the classroom during lunch time. Some of the children hold cookies or sandwiches. On several of the desks there are...
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Pupils at Dyer School

Date: 1931
Description: Pupils of the Dyer School, District No. 1 pose in front of the school.
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Pupils at Farmer's Grove School

Date: 1935
Description: Students pose in front of Farmer's Grove School, District No #3, Towns of York and New Glarus.
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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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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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Students with Flag

Date: 1932
Description: The students at Strawberry School pose in front of the school building. The youngest students, in front, hold an American flag. There are curtains and a pa...
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Last Day of School

Date: 1932
Description: Pupils at Strawberry School pose behind a table laden with food brought for the "last day of school" picnic. The children wear "good" clothes; two boys wit...

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