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University of Wisconsin Poultry Class

Date: 1916
Description: University of Wisconsin Poultry Class. A large group of students is standing outside near cages.
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P....
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Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
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Fencing Demonstration

Date: 02 27 1989
Description: Members of the foils teams of Catholic Memorial High School give a fencing demonstration to a class of elementary school students.
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Manitowoc Summer School Classroom

Date: 1961
Description: Teacher Richard Vaughan answers a question for one of the six resident children who took the opportunity offered by the 1961 Manitowoc Summer School to lea...
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Expression Class in Deaf School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: A teacher and seven students are holding pictures in "Expression class" in a deaf classroom at Doty school, 351 W. Wilson Street. A boy is standing in fron...
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Little Prairie School

Date: 04 29 1955
Description: Group portrait of students, Little Prairie School, District #2, taken outside in front of school building, including teacher Miss Vera Frederickson.
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Teacher and Students in Schoolyard

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Description: A teacher and students posing outdoors in the schoolyard of Shamrock School. The teacher is holding a reading chart and the children are holding books.
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Class at the State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class.
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Pechanga Day School

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Description: Students and teachers in front of Pechanga day school at Mission Agency.
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 10 21 1952
Description: Jack G. Jefferds teaches basic dance steps to Marion Amlie and David Johnson at a Shorewood School dancing class.
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St. Joseph's Church Eighth Grade Class

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of the eighth grade graduation class with priest, nun and altar boys in front of St. Joseph's Catholic School, 901 Bowen Court in the Greenb...
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Walter Damrosch and School Children

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Description: Walter Damrosch surrounded by New York City school children after the first educational concert broadcast through twenty-six stations on February 10, 1928....
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Reed School

Date: 1948
Description: Reed School teacher, Mrs. Orvilla Zillic, and her 17 students pose for a photograph. Built in 1915, the school became the Wisconsin Historical Society's 10...
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Shorewood Hills Kindergarten Class

Date: 05 02 1947
Description: Thirteen students of the Shorewood Hills kindergarten class with their teacher posed in front of a train, constructed of paper and a large barrel, in the s...
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Sunday School Class at First Congregational Church

Date: 11 09 1947
Description: Sunday School Class at First Congregational Church, showing children sitting on the floor and a teacher sitting on a small chair.
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Governor Martin Schreiber with Children

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Description: Governor Martin Schreiber is seated at a desk surrounded by children. The photo was of the signing of an education bill. Senator Fred Risser is to Schrieb...
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Nakoma School Class

Date: 05 06 1948
Description: Teacher Mary Kier, fourth grade teacher at Nakoma Elementary School, 3870 Nakoma Road, stands at the blackboard demonstrating a handwriting technique to he...
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Teachers' Seminary

Date: 1867
Description: 1868-1875. Founded by Dr. Joseph Salzman (featured in the vignette at left, teaching). Vignette, lower left, features St. Francis Seminary, founded in 1856...
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First Train Ride Provided by Fun Fund

Date: 12 08 1948
Description: Roundy's Fun Fund and the Milwaukee Road provided forty children from the remedial department of the Madison public schools with their first train ride to ...

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