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Madison Youth Council's Spring Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Jack Gay, left, and George Koehler, two of the leaders of the Madison Youth Council's spring clean-up campaign, are shown going over the final details for ...
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Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
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Guinea Pig

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Randall school student John Drake, wearing a Boy Scout uniform, holding his classroom's newborn guinea pig named "Mix-Up, Jr."
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Marquette School

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Judy Russell is pointing to the queen bee in the colony at the Marquette School sixth grade classroom; she's discovered that all activity centers about the...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Warren Oakes, (left) is churning the cream wi...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Billy Husebo is eating a cracker spread with ...
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Arlene English New Teacher at Randall School

Date: 09 08 1952
Description: Miss Arlene English, new first grade teacher at Randall School, writes her name on the blackboard on the opening day of school.
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Portrait of two new first grade teachers at Nakoma School, Glynn Calkins and Mrs. James F. Pressentin.
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 05 14 1956
Description: Catharine McClosky, first, second and third grade teacher at the Waubesa School near McFarland, standing in her classroom. She is also a member of the Phil...
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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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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Randy Schwenn's First Day of School

Date: 09 10 1957
Description: Randy Schwenn at Marquette School on his first day in Mrs. Delores Platter's first-grade class.
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Saturday Art Class for Children

Date: 03 08 1958
Description: A boy shows he is on the road to making a clown pattern on burlap at a Saturday art class for children run by the University of Wisconsin Art Education Dep...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New third grade teacher in Sun Prairie, Diane Schmitt, enjoys an apple in her classroom.

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