Title: Grant County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: Rural School Records
Inclusive Dates: 1867-1965

Call Number: Grant Series 100; PH 6581

Quantity: 9.2 cubic feet (11 archives boxes and 6 flat boxes) and 0.8 cubic feet of photographs (120 prints, negatives, and printing blocks)

Repository:

This collection is managed jointly by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections and the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Archival Locations:

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of various school districts in Grant County, including Lancaster High School. The types of records vary by district but generally include minutes of annual meetings, financial records, teacher contracts, names of students enrolled, and attendance records. Teachers' registers include attendance and grade reports, as well as some instructional information on reading and other parts of the curriculum. Also included are school supervisors' records books that contain information on the staff, including teachers. Of note is a book of exam questions that were asked of those seeking entrance to the high school and exam questions for the various high school classes, 1887-1895. The images in this series represents both the day-to-day life of Southeastern Wisconsin rural schoolchildren, as well as the yearly fairs and contests in which they participated in the early 1910s. Many of the photographs are of students posed outside one-room schoolhouses, with some documenting the interior of the schools. Remaining photographs were taken at the Grant County School Contest, the Big Badger Fair in Platteville, or the Livingston High School Agricultural Fair.

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Language: English

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By district number, with single districts listed first followed by joint districts and then Lancaster High School.

Note

There is no volume 86 or 87.

Lancaster Community School District and records of predecessor districts, 1867-1962 (Grant Series 98) contains additional records from some of the schools.

Acquisition Information

Accession Number: C2008/049

Access Restrictions

COLLECTION STORED, ALL or IN-PART, AT ARC: Collection can be requested for transfer through the Area Research Center (ARC) Network; consult Reading Room Staff.

Grant Series 100	Series: School Records
	District No. 1, Town of Lancaster, Dyer School, 1867-1962
Box   9 Volume 88	School board minutes, 1867-1951
Box   1 Volume 1-10	Registers, 1882-1890, 1911-1915, 1925-1934, 1944-1962
	District No. 2, Town of Lancaster, 1882-1900
Box   8 Volume 78	School board minutes, 1882-1900
	District No. 2, Town of North Lancaster, Rowden School, 1886-1958
Box   11 Volume 100-101	School board minutes, 1918-1957
Box   4 Volume 41-47	Registers, 1886-1892, 1918-1925, 1938-1958
Box   12 Volume 40	Registers, 1918-1924
	District No. 3, Town of Little Grant, Welsh School, 1889-1962
Box   9 Volume 90-92	School Board minutes, 1889-1956
Box   6 Volume 60-68	Registers, 1894-1902, 1925-1962
Box   12 Volume 107-108	Registers, 1913-1925
	District No. 4, Town of Ellenboro, Kingsford School, 1954-1962
Box   12 Volume 106	Register, 1954-1962
	District No. 6, Towns of South Lancaster and Ellenboro, Aupperle School, 1882-1962
Box   5 Volume 48-59	Registers, 1882-1893, 1896-1919, 1930-1962
	District No. 8, Towns of Liberty and Ellenboro, Dry Hollow School, 1888-1954
Box   7 Volume 76-77	School board minutes, 1888-1912
Box   8 Volume 82	School board minutes, 1913-1941
Box   7 Volume 73-75	Financial record book, 1944-1946, 1948-1949
Box   2 Volume 19-25	Registers, 1900-1904, 1915-1925, 1931-1937, 1942-1943, 1946-1954
Box   12 Volume 26	Register, 1937-1941
	District No. 9, Town of Liberty, Becker School, 1930-1962
Box   8 Volume 79	School board minutes, 1957-1962
Box   1 Volume 12-14	Registers, 1930-1948
Box   2 Volume 15-18	Registers, 1948-1962
	District No. 10, Town of North Lancaster, 1904-1958
Box   7 Volume 71	School board minutes, 1904-1958
	District No. 10, Town of Potosi, 1900-1924
Box   9 Volume 85	Financial record book, 1900-1907
Box   10 Volume 93	Register, 1904-1911
Box   13 Volume 110	Register, 1911-1917
Box   12 Volume 105	Register, 1918-1924
	District No. 14, Town of South Lancaster, Pleasant View School, 1948-1962
Box   9 Volume 89	School board minutes, 1948-1961
Box   1 Volume 11	Register, 1959-1962
	Joint District 4, Town of Liberty, Liberty Ridge School, 1893-1962
Box   10 Volume 97-98	School board minutes, 1893-1926
Box   11 Volume 99	School board minutes, 1927-1960
Box   8 Volume 80	Financial book, 1955-1962
Box   4 Volume 33-37	Registers, 1898-1901, 1949-1962
Box   12 Volume 38-39	Register, 1916-1928
	Joint District 5, Town of Ellenboro, 1905-1908
Box   8 Volume 84	Register, 1905-1908
	Joint District 8, Town of Liberty, 1912-1915
Box   8 Volume 83	Register, 1912-1915
	Joint District 8, Town of South Lancaster, Rock School, 1867-1962
Box   3 Volume 27-31	School board minutes, 1867-1884, 1890-1916, 1918-1961
Box   3 Volume 32	Register, 1961-1962
	Joint District 13, Towns of North Lancaster and South Lancaster, 1932-1955
Box   7 Volume 72	Financial book, 1932-1955
	Lancaster High School, 1887-1953
Box   11 Volume 102-104	Registers, 1893-1914
Box   13 Volume 111-117	Registers, 1914-1922, , undated
Box   14 Volume 118-126	Registers, 1922-1931
Box   15 Volume 127-134	Registers, 1931-1935, 1938-1942
Box   16 Volume 135-140	Registers, 1942-1948
Box   17 Volume 141-145	Registers, 1948-1953
Box   7 Volume 70	Exam questions, 1887-1895
Box   6 Volume 69	Record book of students graduated, 1899-1930
	School supervisor's records, 1896-1965
Box   10 Volume 94-96	Clerk and faculty information, 1896-1908
Box   13 Volume 109	Clerk and faculty information, 1963-1965
	Unidentified, 1902-1906
Box   8 Volume 81	Financial book, 1902-1906
PH 6581	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
	Prints
	Schools
Box   1 Folder   1 Item   107	Gray's Mills School, District 17, and students
Box   1 Folder   1 Item   108	Unidentified school and students
	Classrooms
Box   1 Folder   1 Item   109	District No. 10, Sylvia Rottiger
Box   1 Folder   1 Item   110	Unidentified
	Grant County Contest Winners
Box   1 Folder   2 Item   111-113	1909-1911
Box   1 Folder   4 Item   119	1911 May?
Box   1 Folder   3 Item   67	1912 May 5
Box   1 Folder   4 Item   114-118	1913-1915
Box   1 Folder   4 Item   120	undated
	Fairs/Exhibits/Exhibitions
Box   1 Folder   4 Item   85	Livingston High School Fair, 1913
	Negatives
	Schools
	Beetown School
Box   2 Folder   1 Item   1	District No. 6
Box   2 Folder   2 Item   2	District No. 7
Box   2 Folder   3 Item   3	Upper School
Box   2 Folder   4 Item   4	Lower School
Box   2 Folder   5 Item   5	Bloomington School District No. 2
Box   2 Folder   6 Item   6	Blue River Township Grade School under construction
Box   3 Folder   18 Item   63	Clifton School District No. 9
	Fennimore School
Box   2 Folder   7-8 Item   7-8	District No. 2? and students
Box   2 Folder   9-10 Item   9-10	District No. 4
Box   2 Folder   11 Item   11	District No. 5 and students
Box   2 Folder   12 Item   12	District No. 7 and students
Box   2 Folder   13 Item   13	Georgetown School
	Glen Haven School
Box   2 Folder   14 Item   14	District No. 1 and students
Box   2 Folder   15 Item   15	District No. 3
Box   2 Folder   16 Item   16	District No. 6
Box   2 Folder   17 Item   17	Hickory Grove School District No. 1
	Jamestown School
Box   2 Folder   18 Item   18	District No. 2 students
Box   2 Folder   19 Item   19	District No. 3 and students
Box   2 Folder   20 Item   20	District No. 4 and students
Box   2 Folder   21 Item   21	District No. 5? and students
Box   2 Folder   22 Item   22	District No. 8 and students
	Liberty
Box   2 Folder   23 Item   23	District No. 1 and students
Box   2 Folder   24 Item   24	District No. 3 and students
	Little Grant
Box   2 Folder   25 Item   25	District No. 3 and students
Box   2 Folder   26-27 Item   26-27	District No. 7 new building and students
Box   2 Folder   28 Item   28	District No. 12?
Box   2 Folder   29 Item   29	Livingston Graded School, 1913
Box   2 Folder   30 Item   30	Marion District No. 3
Box   2 Folder   31 Item   31	Mount Hope High School and Grade School building
Box   2 Folder   32 Item   32	Mount Ida District No. 4 and students
Box   2 Folder   33 Item   33	Potosi District No. 9 and students
	Smelser
Box   2 Folder   34 Item   34	District No. 2 and students
Box   2 Folder   35 Item   35	District No. 5 and students
Box   2 Folder   36 Item   36	District No. 6 and students
Box   2 Folder   37 Item   37	District No. 10 and students
	South Lancaster
Box   2 Folder   38 Item   38	District No. 5
Box   2 Folder   39 Item   39	District No. 8
Box   2 Folder   40-41 Item   40-41	Watertown District No. 1 and students
Box   2 Folder   42 Item   42	Wyalusing District No. 3
Box   2 Folder   43-45 Item   43-45	Unidentified Schools and Students
Box   3 Folder   1-17 Item   46-62	Unidentified Schools and Students (continued)
	Classrooms
Box   3 Folder   19 Item   64	Sewing Class, Fennimore, 1913
Box   3 Folder   20-21 Item   65-66	Unidentified
	Grant County Contest Winner
Box   3 Folder   22 Item   67	4th Annual, Lancaster, 1912 May 5
Box   3 Folder   23-24 Item   68-69	Unidentified
	School Events
Box   3 Folder   25-26 Item   70-71	North Lancaster Picnic Dinner
	Fairs/Exhibits/Exhibitions
	Badger Fair
Box   3 Folder   27 Item   72	Broadside, 1912
Box   3 Folder   28-29 Item   73-74	Educational Exhibit, 1913
	Fennimore
Box   3 Folder   30 Item   75	Educational Exhibit, 1913
Box   4 Folder   3 Item   95	Sewing Exhibit (66431)
	Grant County Fair
Box   3 Folder   37 Item   82	Corn Exhibit, 1912
Box   3 Folder   31 Item   76	Boys Corn Club Contest
Box   3 Folder   32 Item   77	The Korn Kids
Box   3 Folder   33 Item   78	Winners, 1913
Box   3 Folder   34 Item   79	Corn Contest Winners, Wisconsin #7
Box   3 Folder   35-36 Item   80-81	Corn Exhibit, 1913
Box   3 Folder   47 Item   92	10 Prize Ears
	Livingston High School Fair
Box   3 Folder   42 Item   87	Broadside, 1912
Box   4 Folder   7 Item   99	Looking Down on Stock Judging, 1912 October 5
Box   4 Folder   2 Item   94	Vegetable Exhibit, 1912 October 5
Box   4 Folder   10 Item   102	Line of Horses, 1912 October 5
Box   3 Folder   38-41 Item   83-86	2nd Annual, 1913
	Wisconsin #7
Box   3 Folder   43 Item   88	10 Prize Ears
Box   3 Folder   44 Item   89	Corn Exhibit, 1911
	Unidentified fairs
Box   3 Folder   45 Item   90	Boys and Girls in Corn Contest, 1912
Box   3 Folder   46 Item   91	Prize Winning Ears, 1913
Box   4 Folder   1 Item   93	Corn Exhibit
Box   4 Folder   4-5 Item   96-97	Exhibition of Student Works
Box   4 Folder   6 Item   98	Specimens of School Works
	Miscellaneous
Box   4 Folder   8-9 Item   100-101	Lancaster Train Station, people boarding a train
Box   4 Folder   11 Item   103	Cattle Grazing
Box   4 Folder   12 Item   104	Two unidentified Men
Box   4 Folder   13 Item   105	Two unidentified Men and unidentified young Girl
Box   4 Folder   14 Item   106	Building with Water Wheel
Box   5	Printing Plates