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Students outside of Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a crowd of students in front. Identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views."
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Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: In the foreground stands the Monona Academy and in the background the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, housed in the octagonal former Soldiers' and Orphans' ho...
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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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William Freeman Vilas

Date: 1858
Description: Portrait of William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908), Civil War and United States Senator, taken while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin.
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Art Class at the ORT School

Date: 1950
Description: Art class at the ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) School; Hamburg, Germany.
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Magda Herzberger Lecturing

Date: 11 06 1980
Description: Magda Herzberger gives a lecture on the Holocaust to a classroom of Monroe High School students.
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Magda Herzberger and Her Piano Class

Date: 1940
Description: Magda Moses Herzberger (third row, fourth from the left) with her piano class in Cluj, Romania.
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Football Game

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Description: View of men on field during football game. Possibly taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the background a crowd is watching on stands in front of a large bric...
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Children Playing Jump Rope

Date: 1920
Description: Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County.
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Children Folk Dancing in School Festival

Date: 1913
Description: Students of Palos Park School folk dancing at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Testing Milk with Babcock Tester

Date: 1915
Description: Teachers and students using a "Babcock Tester" in a classroom. Original caption reads: "Pupils of grammar grades testing milk with Babcock Tester; County S...
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School at Brothertown

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Description: Exterior view of the school at Brothertown. with students and teacher posed outdoors around the front steps.
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School at Brothertown

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Description: Group of students and a teacher posed outside a school building. One boy holds a chalkboard sign reading "Brothertown Dist. No. 2."
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...

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