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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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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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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Gifts of Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Gifts of dishes, radio-phonograph, wire recorder, toys and books are enjoyed by children at Lapham School. Roundy's Fun Fund provided these and more items ...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: A teacher, probably Mrs. Regina Barnhart at Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, giving a shorthand test to two female students.
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Children Patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Three children patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 300 Femrite Drive, are pictured with their teacher, Murva James (center), and Dr. W.D. ...
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 04 14 1953
Description: Portrait of Catherine McCloskey, teacher and member of the Philharmonic Chorus, with four of her students at Waubesa School. Students, left to right: Rober...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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Middleton Fourth Graders Win Encyclopedia

Date: 05 19 1961
Description: Aurilla Dorer's fourth grade class at Middleton's Elm Lawn school wins a set of the World Book Encyclopedia from Wisconsin State Journal columnist "Uncle R...
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Schenk Junior High School Receives Encyclopedia Set

Date: 03 03 1965
Description: David Bednarek, left, education writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, presenting a set of World Book encyclopedia to Schenk Junior High school for submit...
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Lay Teacher's Assistants Help Teachers in Madison Schools

Date: 11 11 1965
Description: Thirteen lay teacher's assistants are hired to assist teachers in nine different Madison schools where the number of students exceeds 30 or 32 in the class...
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Sixth Grade Students from Madison Area Study Junior Great Books of the Western World

Date: 11 17 1965
Description: Twenty sixth-grade students at Van Hise Elementary School, 4801 Waukesha Street, gather in a circle under the leadership of Mrs. Bernard (Florence) Jaeger,...
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Sixth Grade Students from Madison Area Study Junior Great Books of the Western World

Date: 11 17 1965
Description: Three sixth graders at Van Hise Elementary School are studying the Junior Great Books of the Western World. Left to right, Jerry Sielaff, Bob Ryan and Pete...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Student teacher, Marilyn Nelson, sitting on the floor and reading to Mark Weinberg. Also listening are Frank Effland and Eddie Grant. Mark is holding a stu...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Third grade students gather around teacher Diane Schmitt's desk before school begins. Students are Jerry Tennant, Cathy Kvalheim, Vicky Seltzner, Suzanne N...

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