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Mendota Beach School Classroom

Date: 1922
Description: View from front of classroom of children sitting at desks at the Mendota Beach School.
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Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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First Methodist Church Boys Choir

Date: 12 17 1939
Description: Group portrait of Boys Choir wearing choir robes, holding song books and singing on stairs at the First Methodist Church, located at 203 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Fourth Grade Class at Washington School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Rear view of a fourth grade class at Washington School, 217 N. Broom Street, at work in the classroom. Caption reads: "A Fourth Grade at Work. Madison Publ...
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Off to School

Date: 09 03 1931
Description: Wayne Jr. and Marion Klein leave home at 710 Conklin Place for school.
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Phillip La Follette and Family on Election Night

Date: 11 04 1930
Description: Phillip La Follette and family on Election night, November 4, 1930, at the La Follette home.
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Christmas Scene

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
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William McFarland Family Pose in Yard

Date: 1880
Description: The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc...
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Family Seated at Table in Yard

Date: 1876
Description: Family seated around a table in the yard of house. On the table are books, and a statue of a horse and rider.
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Family Posed near Fence and Frame House

Date: 1872
Description: An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i...
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Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen and Family

Date: 1879
Description: The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen, and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hou...
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Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
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Funeral Party around Casket

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of a large funeral party assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as...
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F.A. Schmidt and Family

Date: 1877
Description: F.A. Schmidt, professor of theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, with his family on the grounds of the seminary, formerly the Soldiers' and Orphans'...
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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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United Givers' Fund Volunteer

Date: 10 23 1956
Description: Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath...
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Daycare Worker Reading to Children

Date: 03 08 1944
Description: Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A....
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Children at Madison Library Summer Workshop

Date: 06 27 1944
Description: Four children at the Lowell School branch participating in Madison Free Library's summer workshop projects. Left to right: Darrell Premo, Jean LeFebvre, Pa...

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