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Walking to School

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Description: Winter scene with children bundled-up against the cold carrying their lunch pails down a snowy rural path to the one room school house called the Pahquahah...
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Recess at a One-Room School

Date: 09 1939
Description: Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi...
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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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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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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Reed School

Date: 1948
Description: Reed School teacher, Mrs. Orvilla Zillic, and her 17 students pose for a photograph. Built in 1915, the school became the Wisconsin Historical Society's 10...
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Mexican School Children

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A group of Mexican school children pose with their teacher near a palm tree in front of a schoolhouse.
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Children in Schoolhouse

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Description: Interior of a schoolhouse, with the children posed sitting and standing in the rear of the building.
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Furnace in Schoolhouse

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Description: Wood burning furnace at the rear of a schoolhouse classroom. In addition, students are sitting at their desks reading.
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Schoolroom Interior

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Description: Interior of rural schoolroom. A teacher at the back of the room appears to be helping as students of all ages sit working at their desks. A large U.S. Flag...
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Fennimore District #5 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posed on lawn in front of clapboard school building. An outhouse and shed are behind the building on the right and left.
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Fennimore District #7 School Building

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Description: Group of students sitting and standing along fence in front of a clapboard one-room school. The teacher stands behind them near the front door which has ro...
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Glen Haven District #1 School Building

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Description: Teacher and students posing on grounds in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. There is a fence and outhouse on the left, and in the background is a ...
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Jamestown School District #3

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Description: Jamestown students sitting and standing along a fence in front of clapboard one-room school building on a small hill.
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Jamestown School District #4 School Buiding

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Description: View of a teacher and four students standing in front of a clapboard one-room school building. A horse is grazing in the grass in front of an outhouse on t...
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Jamestown School District #5 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road or field of a teacher sitting and students posing in the yard in front of a clapboard one-room school building.
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Jamestown School District #8 School Building and Students

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Description: Teacher and students stand spaced apart in a line in front of a clapboard one-room school building and a small shed, perhaps an outhouse. In the background...
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Liberty School District #1 School Building

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Description: View across lawn of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with students and a teacher playing baseball on the right in the middle distance.
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Liberty School District #3 School Building

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Description: View across yard of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and children playing outside.
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Little Grant School District #3 School Building

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Description: Students posed around a wood bridge outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Small building on left may be an outhouse. In the background is a hill with a...

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