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Vocational School Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. Margot Nelson, the teacher, is showing students Bertha Haack and Josephine Scheerer the technique of stuffing the body cavity of a turkey at a Vocatio...
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Longfellow School Third and Fourth Graders

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is...
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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars.
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Marquette School

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Bob West has discovered that life in the underground ant colony consists of building homes, storing food and caring for babies. The ant colony has been a p...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Blanche Mitchell reading to her second grade students at Lowell School. She is one of many teachers who are members of the Madison Business and Professiona...
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Madison Teachers — Education Week

Date: 11 06 1951
Description: Madison West High School physics teacher Frederick Schuler works with an oscilloscope.
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Typewriters Waiting to be Repaired

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Description: A table top is filled with typewriters at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). Two signs identify which need repair, and which have been repaired. In th...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Group portrait of three new teachers at East High School, Omar Kussow, Eugene Kirst, and Douglas Mullen.
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St. Mary of the Lake Parish School First Day

Date: 09 09 1957
Description: Rev. Edward Auchter, pastor of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, and Sister Mary Martin get acquainted with three of the new fourth and fifth graders o...
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Demonstrating Infant Care at Neighborhood House

Date: 1929
Description: View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin...
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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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Science Teacher Fred Schuler Retires

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Retiring West High School physics teacher Fred Schuler is shown working in his classroom laboratory.
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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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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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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: As preparation for speech class at the Madison Vocational School, Olga Toltzien is reading from The American Observer.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Florence Baskerville directing a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Armanda Schmelzer expressing a thought during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
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High School Shorthand Writing Awards

Date: 06 07 1957
Description: Madison East High School teacher in the school's business education department, Mary Heyer (standing by the chalkboard), awards gold pins to Barbara Lien (...
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Saturday Art Class for Children

Date: 03 08 1958
Description: Students watching a movie about a circus to get ideas at a Saturday art class for children run by the University of Wisconsin Art Education Department.
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U.W. Co-Ed Engineering Student Lynn Stodola

Date: 09 30 1958
Description: Lynn Stodola, Black River Falls, one of the few U.W. College of Engineering chemical engineering students, stands at the blackboard with Professor Roland ...

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