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The School at Work
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Miss Harriet Cruver, teacher at Hillcrest School, Dist. No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, stands at the rear of her classroom supervising students at the blackboard. Other pupils read and work at their desks.
1933
Sprague, S. J.
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Hillcrest School
1933
Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
Frank Smith, Jr.
1933
Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Br...
School Children at Work
1932
Pupils at the Northey School, District No. 7, read and work at their desks. Student artwork and other prints decorate the walls.
The School at Work
1933
Glady Hofseth, the teacher at Eagle Corners School, sits with a small group of students at the front of the classroom while the other students work at their desks. There is a large stove in the bac...
The School at Work
1931
Students work at their desks in the Mayo School, District No. 1. A row of books forms the foreground; history lessons from the time of reconstruction after the Civil War are written on the blackboard.
Students at Work
1932
Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room.
