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Female Students in Evening Class

Date: 12 10 1919
Description: Women pose at their desks in an evening class. Three women (teachers?) stand in the back. Mathematical equations are written on the blackboards in the ba...
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Close-up of a students' hands at a Vocational School cooking class sewing up a turkey after stuffing it with dressing. Another person is standing in the ba...
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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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Students and Teacher in New Classroom

Date: 01 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Carol Massen, kindergarten teacher, working with her kindergarten class in a new classroom space. The classroom was part of an addition that included ...
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David Lindl with Teacher

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: David Lindl who has muscular dystrophy, shown with his teacher, Patricia Farrell. David is one of many handicapped persons who is helped by the sale of Eas...
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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 12 08 1946
Description: Five women members of the millinery class at Madison Vocational School admiring their finished hats. Left to right: Mrs. A.J. (Cora) Niebauer, Mrs. W. H.(G...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 1946
Description: Lapham School students with gift boxes prepared by Junior Red Cross members to be sent to boys and girls overseas. Shown with teacher Gladys Halvorsen are,...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 12 15 1946
Description: East High School clothing and homemaking teacher Helen Mathias (second from right), helping three of her students to make wool jumpers for the Junior Red C...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 12 15 1946
Description: Blessed Sacrament School students (left to right), Jerry Quinn, Bill Laughnan, Mary Ann Petranek, Donna Wartner, and Maxine Watson, shown with hospital tra...
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Wisconsin High School Driving Class

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: While Ed Tallard takes a reaction test at simulated auto controls in a Wisconsin High School class, his instructor, Homer C. Stahl, (left) and three classm...
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Wisconsin High School Driving Class

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: Art Posbeck is checking his field of vision on equipment from the Badger Ordnance Works in a driving class. Watching him are left to right: Dick Gettle, Bo...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Students are sitting in rows of desks and taking notes.
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Students Receiving Hearing Test

Date: 04 27 1947
Description: Margaret Hughey taking an individual audiometer test given by Roger Mass at the Sun Prairie High School. In the front row of students, listening in, are Ro...
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Ford Accounting School

Date: 06 17 1947
Description: A large group of students studying at the Ford Accounting School.
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Doctors at Cancer Meeting

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: A room full of doctors are seated in a classroom at school desks for a "cancer clinic".
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Students sitting at desks in a classroom in Shorewood Hills Elementary School.
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Two School Children Drinking Milk

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Two school children, a boy and a girl, drinking milk from bottles in their classroom with an American Dairy Association poster in the background. Taken for...
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Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction

Date: 11 28 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students watching a "teaching movie" at the Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction preview theater, 1312 West Johnson Street.
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Teacher and Students in Classroom

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: A male teacher and students at their desks in a classroom working on a project involving growing plants. Taken for the Wisconsin Agriculturist.

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