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Jane Lloyd Jones

Date: 1898
Description: Jane Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Jen), co-owner of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin.
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Professor Edward Ross in Tahiti

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of Professor Ross and five friends in native dress in Tahiti. Two of the people are sitting on a stack of logs, with a cat sitting between t...
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Sherman Park School, Student Graduates

Date: 05 27 1932
Description: Sherman Park School, 1601 North Sherman Avenue, eighth grade graduates, five boys, one girl, and teacher. Floral arrangements and programs are featured.
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Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family and Visitors

Date: 1877
Description: "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A...
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School Bus at Oldest School House

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: Children disembark from an International Model C-30 school bus parked in front of the "oldest [frame] school house" in America. The bus was one of seven ow...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View up hill of clapboard school building with stone foundation. The teacher and students are posed along the railing of the porch. In the background is a ...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose in the tall grass in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from back of classroom of teacher and students during a class. There is a student standing at the chalkboard, and the teacher is standing behind her d...
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Classmates Picking Weeds

Date: 02 1919
Description: A group of children and adults from Elm Grove school learning to identify and pick weeds along the side of a dirt road.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Three Women on Porch

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three women posing sitting on the porch of old Elliot House. Old Elliot House was where teachers boarded and later was the home o...
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Potting Plants

Date: 1911
Description: Group of women from the District Agricultural School, and gardener E.E. Harris on the far right. They are standing in a row potting plants at a potting tab...
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Rural Teachers in Automobile

Date: 1920
Description: Two women seated in automobile outside school building(?). Original caption describes the women as Miss Sullivan and her assistant, Miss Brady, both rural ...
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Freedom School Teacher and Students

Date: 1964
Description: Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes.
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Marian Violet Metcalf

Date: 1931
Description: Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
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Class Group Portrait Featuring Emma Schmitt

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in...
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School Teachers Sorting Weed Seed

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Description: School teachers at a North Dakota fair, learning to sort weed seed, and name the varieties.
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Nature Walk in Kindergarten

Date: 1918
Description: A Woodward Avenue School kindergarten teacher is showing a tree leaf or seed to her students during a walk in a natural area. Most of the students are look...

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