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Girls' Gym Class

Date: 1900
Description: Girls playing basketball outdoors at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Print

Old Abe Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1904
Description: Chromolithograph of Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle. The title reads: "Memorial Day in Wisconsin Schools."
Photograph

Dancers at Hillside

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of students at the Hillside Home School performing a may pole dance while an audience looks on. Dance instruction at the school was provided ...
Photograph

The "Rock School" Building

Date: 1900
Description: The "Rock School" building, with children and teachers posed outside.
Postcard

Lincoln School

Date: 1905
Description: View toward the front and left side of the school. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Wausau, Wis."
Postcard

Lincoln School

Date: 1907
Description: View toward the front and right side of the school. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Wausau, Wis."
Drawing

Hillside Calendar Cover Design

Date: 1907
Description: Cover illustration for the Hillside Calendar depicting a girl with birds and flowers.
Photograph

L. Janes School

Date: 1900
Description: View towards the front of the L. Janes School.
Photograph

Franklin School

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Franklin School.
Photograph

First and Second Grades at Scribner School

Date: 1908
Description: First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School.
Photograph

Town and St. Mary's Academy

Date: 1905
Description: View along curving railroad tracks towards town, with the river along the right. St. Mary's Academy is among trees in the center.
Postcard

Industrial School for Girls

Date: 1906
Description: Administration building for the school. The building has over three stories, and a covered main entrance. Caption reads: "Administration Building, Industri...
Photograph

Menomonie High School Faculty

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of the Menomonie High School Faculty from 1903. Part of a 1905 yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a class prophecy theme.
Photograph

Menomonie High School Faculty, 1905

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of the Menomonie High School Faculty from 1905. Part of a 1905 yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a class prophecy theme.
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Magdalina Sara Jungck, as a School Teacher

Date: 1905
Description: Magdalina Sara Jungck, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a school teacher, lashing a boy student over a desk. Part of a yearbo...
Photograph

Temperance Group at Willard School

Date: 07 17 1909
Description: Field trip to Emma Willard's home near Janesville by the 18th annual convention of the Loyal Temperance League of Wisconsin. The sign on one of the wagons...
Photograph

School Children

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view of large group of children posed in front of their school.
Print

Menominee Training School Dance Card

Date: 06 23 1908
Description: Menominee Training School dance card.
Photograph

Machine Shop

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill of Machine Shop, Electrical Laboratory and Industrial Arts Laboratory, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Machine Shop

Date: 1904
Description: View down hill of Machine Shop, Electrical Laboratory and Industrial Arts Laboratory, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A large smokestack is ...

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