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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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Wisconsin High School Debating Team

Date: 05 09 1934
Description: Group portrait of six members of the Wisconsin High School debating teams, and their teacher (unnamed). The students are, left to right front row: Farringt...
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Barber Science Class

Date: 08 27 1929
Description: Students in the first class in Barber Science with instructor, Chester Feavel, pointing at an anatomy chart.
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Leo Kehl on The American Dancer Cover

Date: 08 1937
Description: Cover of The American Dancer magazine featuring Leo Kehl, head of the Kehl School of Dance and Genevieve Esse Kehl.
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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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Child Salon of Art Winner with John Steuart Curry

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a...
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Mrs. Marie Haight and Mrs. W.C. Dunn

Date: 02 21 1945
Description: Mrs. Marie Haight, 437 North Ingersoll Street, on the left, and Mrs. W.C. Dunn, Shorewood Hills. Mrs. Haight, a teacher at Shorewood School, is being prese...
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All-Campus Rally on the Palestine Question

Date: 11 14 1945
Description: Professor Walter Agard addressing an all-campus rally on the Palestine question held at the Memorial Union. Seated left to right: Elaine Sermopskie, Topeka...
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W.H. Glover Reading the "Milwaukee Sentinel"

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: W.H. Glover, University of Wisconsin assistant professor in agricultural economics, reading an edition of the "Milwaukee Daily Sentinel" in the Wisconsin S...
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Professor W.W. Daniels, Geologist

Date: 1872
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor W.W. Daniels, University of Wisconsin geologist. Daniels worked as one of Increase Lapham's assistants during the Wis...
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Myra Cary

Date: 11 26 1947
Description: Portrait of Myra (Mrs. C.F.) Cary seated in a chair holding a book in her suite at the Park Hotel on her 86th birthday. She and her husband led the way in ...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma...
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Randall School Teacher and Two Students

Date: 04 15 1948
Description: Mrs. Everett (Helen) Holterman, Randall School teacher, and student Nancy Hoff, look on as classmate Lonny Koff points out the country of Norway on a world...
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Legal Aid Society Staff

Date: 12 21 1948
Description: Mrs. Ken H. (Virginia) Taylor, secretary of the Madison Legal Aid Society, arranging a case file for William, Oshkosh, (seated) a University of Wisconsin l...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Four foreign students at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School learning English from Margery N. Stewart.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1949
Description: The Badger Spelling Bee at Kegonsa School, Route 1, Stoughton. Shown, left to right, are Mrs. Alvilda Orvold, teacher; and students Robert Iverson, Ann Ive...
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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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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 09 25 1949
Description: Esther T. Carswell, an art teacher at Central Junior High School, works with Dennis Herfel and Anne Holm as they make Halloween decorations for patients at...
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Madison Spelling Bee Pronouncer

Date: 04 21 1950
Description: Paul W. Gauger, speech instructor at Wisconsin High School, who is to be the master pronouncer at the spelling championship for the 21 Madison schools.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste...

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