Pictured here are the carpenter's shop and dress making class at St.
Joseph's Industrial School in Keshen, Wisconsin.  As part of its education
program, the federal government created the contract school.  It agreed to
donate the land, build the schoolhouse, and pay $75 per year per student
to the organization willing to run the school.  This arrangement appealed
especially to the Catholic church, as a way to encourage converts, and by
1858 two-thirds of all contracts schools were Catholic.  St. Joseph's at
Keshena, both a boarding school and a day school, made great contributions
to the literacy rate in its community.