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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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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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Upper Beetown School

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Description: View from field of two horses grazing near a fence in the area outside the clapboard school building. There is a small outhouse on the far left. A hill wit...
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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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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road up hill of teacher and students posing in front of a clapboard and one-room schoolhouse. A horse and buggy are on the hill on the right.
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Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
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Walkenhorst School Board

Date: 1917
Description: Teacher and school board of the Walkenhorst School sit around a table outdoors near a building. The men have set their hats on the table, and a horse-drawn...
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New Home School Exterior

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: Exterior view of the New Home School. What appears to be a horse-drawn carriage stands to the right of the building. Two people can be seen sitting inside ...
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New Hope School Renovation

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of students and teachers stands behind teams of oxen pulling a wagon through a wooded area in front of New Hope School during its renovation after ...
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O'Brien School

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Description: View across field towards a small wooden school house in the distance, with children on the porch, and a horse and wagon in the yard. Identified as the O'B...
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Kenyon School

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Description: View across lawn towards a brick school house with children and a woman posing standing on the front steps. There is a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Women and Children

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Description: A group of four women and a group of children are standing in front of a building, perhaps a school. A man is sitting in a sleigh with two horses on the le...

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