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Home Economics Class Banquet

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Elevated view of a Home Economics class of girls in which social attributes are being developed, Madison Public Schools, Emerson School. The girls are sitt...
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 09 24 1944
Description: Children participating in a thimble party at the Shorewood Hills School while their mothers participated in the annual Madison Woman's Club benefit party. ...
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 10 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Six students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Norwegian ethnic costumes performing in the school pageant celebrating Wisconsi...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Nine students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian ethnic costumes performing in the school ...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Nine students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in British Isles costumes performing in the school pageant celebrating Wisconsin'...
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Girl Scout Week

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Three members of a Girl Scout troop at the Washington Orthopedic school, and their leader and teacher, Miss Erna E. Schweppe, are shown making hats for a H...
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Making Pumpkin Pie

Date: 10 22 1954
Description: Virginia Price's kindergarten class making pumpkin pie at Dudgeon School. Left to right: Nancy Olmstead, Julie Duckwitz, Marcia Kampen, Larry Elliott, and ...
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Badger School Egg Tree

Date: 03 27 1956
Description: First graders of the Badger School decorated eggs and hung them on a silver tree for disabled children in the orthopedic ward of University hospitals. The ...
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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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Joseph R. Coughlin with West High School Girls

Date: 11 11 1957
Description: Slightly elevated view of Joseph R. (Roundy) Coughlin posing with members of the Madison West High School girls' club who stuffed envelopes for "Roundy's F...
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Wisconsin High School Student Rehearsal

Date: 02 11 1958
Description: Wisconsin High School students rehearse for a musical program for World Day of Prayer. They include, from left to right: Oz Marshall, Karen Isaksen, Ted Gr...
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Roundy Presents Gavel at West High Girls Club

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin stands with his arm around the shoulders of Jane LaCourt as he presents a gavel to her as 23 members of the West High Girl Club lo...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Robert Jamieson and Patricia Tallard, children in Mrs. V. B. Roberts' nursery school, color and cut out paper turkeys as part of a Thanksgiving project.
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Pupils in Clara Boyle's third grade class at Marquette School wear Puritan costumes while examining a small early American-style log cabin as part of their...
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Second Graders Make Pictorial Displays for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 22 1961
Description: Second graders at Hoyt School make pictorial displays for Thanksgiving to show what they are thankful for. Edith Birdsall (7), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joh...
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Pumpkin Totem Pole at Gompers School

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Teresa Vos, age 5, dressed as a ghost, pays homage to a pumpkin totem pole at Gompers school.
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Philharmonic Chorus of Madison Prepares for Annual Winter Concert

Date: 12 01 1965
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison, directed by Prof. Samuel Jones of the University of Wisconsin School of Music, rehearses for its annual winter concert.
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Dorothy Sliter's First Graders

Date: 12 1954
Description: Shorewood Hills first-grade teacher, Dorothy Sliter, posing with her twenty-three pupils by a model of Santa Claus' castle, which they made for presentatio...

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