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Pleasant View School, Brockway, Wisconsin

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Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a fence in front of a wooden school house building. Identified as the Pleasant View school in Brockway.
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Empty Classroom

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Description: View from back of room towards the front of a classroom. Identified as a room in the school building built in 1872 in Black River Falls.
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University of Wisconsin Histological Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of a histological laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of students, men and women, are sitting around two tables in fro...
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Man on a Ladder

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Description: A man is posing standing sideways on a ladder holding a bucket in front of a brick building and a window. The building is identified as the school building...
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Baptist Sunday School Class

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a large group of children posing outside a house, with two women in the background inside of the house looking out of a large window. I...
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Window Washing at New Holy Name Seminary, 702 S. High Point Road

Date: 09 15 1964
Description: Mothers of new seminarians volunteer to wash windows at the new Holy Name Seminary located at 702 S. High Point Road in Madison. The mothers came from Dioc...
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Vel Phillips in Classroom

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Description: View from side of classroom towards Vel Phillips who is standing behind a teacher's desk. There are a group of unidentified adults sitting in the classroom...
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Rephotographic Pair: Public School

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the Public School, presented as a pair.
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Chetek High School

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Description: View across lawn towards Chetek High School. Two buildings are on the grounds. The one on the right has a fire escape and gabled roof. Caption reads: "Chet...
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Thornless Common Honeylocust

Date: 1979
Description: A winter view of a specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin. The tree is standing next to the st...
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Group Portrait at High School Graduation

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Description: Group portrait of five people at a high school graduation. The graduate is wearing a blanket with a Native American motif draped over one of her shoulders,...
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Evangelic Church and Graded School

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Description: View of a one-room school building and a church. Caption reads: "Evangelic Church and Graded School, Jackson, Wis."
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America's First Kindergarten

Date: 1968
Description: View across lawn towards a man holding open a door for a group of children. They are entering a small white building, the site of America's first kindergar...
Postcard

The Chas. Durkee School

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Description: Color illustration of a school building. Oval and arched windows are above the arched entrances. Caption reads: "The Chas. Durkee School, Kenosha, Wis."
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High School

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Description: Hand-colored view of the high school, a three-story brick building with arched entrances. Caption reads: "High School, La Crosse, Wis."
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Abandoned School

Date: 1935
Description: A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de...
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Madison East High School

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Description: View across street towards Madison East High School on which an addition was added in 1962-63. (Picture taken from opposite end of school from addition.)
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North School

Date: 1908
Description: View towards the corner of a brick school building with distinctive arched windows on both sides. Caption reads: "North School, Lancaster, Wis."
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School

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Description: View of a two-story wood frame school with shuttered windows and a bell tower. Caption reads: "School, London, Wis."
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Brother Norbert Karpfinger

Date: 06 08 1989
Description: A man is smiling and leaning against a school desk. Caption reads: "Brother Norbert Karpfinger will be leaving Milwaukee."

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