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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Students Outside the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Students gather in the schoolyard at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several school buildings are seen in the background.
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School for the Deaf — Exterior

Date: 1893
Description: Exterior view of the main building of the State School for the Deaf.
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Family Posed in front of Wood Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in a yard around a table with a girl holding an opened hand fan. The wood frame house behind them has a piano on its porch.
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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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First Ward School

Date: 1887
Description: Exterior of the First Ward School.
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Second Ward School

Date: 1887
Description: Exterior view of Second Ward School. Newly planted trees with wood supports are in the yard surrounding the school.
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High School

Date: 1860
Description: The first high school erected in Palmyra, built about 1860. People are standing in the yard.
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Graduating Class

Date: 1894
Description: Group portrait of the graduating class. The four men and four women are seated in the front yard of the photographer holding their diplomas.
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Female students garden next to the Home Economics Practice House. The house has clapboard siding on its two stories and there is a porch on the front and b...
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Group of Children in front of Elementary School

Date: 1895
Description: View across road towards the exterior of a brick elementary school in northern Wisconsin. A large group of children and adults pose from within the schooly...
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Black River Falls High School

Date: 1897
Description: View across street towards the front of a large brick school building. Identified as the high school built in 1897 in Black River Falls.
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University of Wisconsin — Bascom Hill View

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view over dwellings and yards towards Bascom Hall, with South and North Halls on the left and right of Bascom Hill, and Music Hall with its clock ...

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