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International D-15-M Station Wagon at Riding Academy

Date: 1940
Description: Female students and a horse next to, and inside of, an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody") used for transportation at the Clearbrook Riding Academ...
Book or Pamphlet

International School Buses

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Cover features a photographic illustration of school children boarding a bus for the...
Photograph

Gerke Twins

Date: 1940
Description: Twin sisters Julie & Juliet Gerke, students at the Kehl School of Dance, posed in matching, Kehl-designed clothing--including hats, jackets, short skirts, ...
Photograph

Marynook Novitiate

Date: 1940
Description: View across grounds, with trees and shrubs on the lawn, towards the Main building and dormitory with ivy on the corner.
Photograph

Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the school of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary.
Photograph

High School

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of a high school and the parking lot in front of it.
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Photograph

High School, Richland Center, Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view towards a high school, with students walking on the sidewalks and several parked automobiles.
Postcard

Winnebago Indian Mission School

Date: 1940
Description: Winnebago Indian Mission School of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. This boarding school for Indian children was established in 1917 near Black River F...
Photograph

Writers Workshop at Highlander

Date: 1940
Description: A late 1930s early 1940s writers workshop at Highlander run by Leon Wilson. Charlie Ferguson, Editor, Reader's Digest, working with Mrs. Joe Kelly Stockt...
Photograph

Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools

Date: 1940
Description: Central Building. Six-story building with cars along the road next to it. In the lower foreground is a parking lot with a sign listing parking as 15 cents.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Leo Kehl

Date: 1940
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Leo Kehl. It is inscribed, "To Marion Hughes, May you always be happy to the dancing profession. Your teacher, Leo Kehl".
Print

School Funding Chart

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer titled In Wisconsin, School Costs Are the Heaviest Burden on General Property Taxpayers published by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities wi...
Print

International School Buses

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International School buses. Includes a photograph of an International School bus picking up children in a residential ...
Photograph

Ondassagon School

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Ondossagon Public School building. The three-story brick structure was built in 1917. In the background are other brick additions and another t...
Photograph

Ondossagon School

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Ondossagon Public School building. This three-story brick structure was built in 1917.
Postcard

High School Gymnasium

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view from street intersection of the High School gymnasium. Caption reads: "High School Gymnasium, Darlington, Wis."
Postcard

Aeroplane View Davidson Hall and part of Academy Campus

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of the campus of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy. Caption reads: "Aeroplane View Davidson Hall and part of Academy Campus, Northwes...
Postcard

World War Memorial and School

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "World War Memorial and School, Washington Island, Wis." The school is on the left and the memorial is on the right, among trees.

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