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Students by Brick High School

Date: 1875
Description: View across wooden platform of a brick high school on a hill surrounded by a fence. The school has a mansard roof and what appears to be a bell tower above...
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Class Outside One Room Schoolhouse

Date: 1877
Description: Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse.
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The Mazomanie School

Date: 1873
Description: The Mazomanie School, later the high school. A large group of students and teachers are standing in front of the two-story brick building with octagonal cu...
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Children with Diplomas around Table

Date: 1874
Description: A large group of children are seated at a long table loaded with desserts. The boys sit on the left and girls on the right. Many are clutching what appear ...
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Luther College Dining Hall

Date: 1876
Description: Elevated view of the Luther College dining hall interior. A large group of male students are seated in the hall which has arched windows and walls.
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Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: A view of the south and west sides of Luther College. Built in 1865, the south wing was added later. The building burned May 19, 1889 and re-opened Octobe...
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Small School with Children

Date: 1876
Description: Group portrait of children and teaches posing in front of a small frame school building.
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Brick School with Children

Date: 1873
Description: Large brick two-story school house with small tower and three chimneys. A group of students are in front of the building and two boys are in a tree.
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Students outside of Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a crowd of students in front. Identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views."
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Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: In the foreground stands the Monona Academy and in the background the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, housed in the octagonal former Soldiers' and Orphans' ho...

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