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Sceen Play by Sherman Elementary School Students

Date: 12 02 1953
Description: Members of the 4th-grade class viewing the scroll screen play, which they had produced. The play, "A Day in the Jungle," was planned and coordinated by the...
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Scroll Sceen Play by Sherman Elementary School Students

Date: 12 02 1953
Description: Fourth grade students viewing the scroll screen play which they had produced. The play, "A Day in the Jungle" was planned and coordinated by their teacher,...
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Teen Dance Lessons

Date: 04 12 1954
Description: The Shorewood Hills Community League sponsored a dance class for teenagers at the Blackhawk Country Club that was taught by Arthur Murray instructors. Tom ...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Pupils reading Days of Adventure outdoors: Lucy Hobbins, Dennis Curran and Carlton Enger.
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Teacher Mrs. Gertrude Wilson is sitting outside in the shade and reading to her pupils. She is sitting in a chair on a sidewalk across from the children wh...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
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Finger Painting Class at Nichols School

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Art instructor Ray Lenahan instructing a third-grade class at Nichols School in the art of finger painting using an old-style Crayon drawing as an example,...
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Finger Painting Class at Nichols School

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Third-grade student Susan Pressentin (of 4805 Wallace Avenue) is working on finger painting project at Nichols School. She is wearing a Brownie uniform.
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City of Madison & U.W. Police Graduates

Date: 08 1955
Description: Sixteen new Madison policemen and three U.W. officers receiving their diplomas at a graduation ceremony held at the City of Madison Police Academy School. ...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: In a staged elementary school classroom scene, a teacher notices an inattentive boy. The four actors are: Geoffrey Rotwein, Faye Daley ("teacher"), Marion...
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We Saw You . . . at Bible School

Date: 07 19 1957
Description: Children attend the summer Bible school session at Midvale Community Lutheran Church at 4329 Tokay Boulevard. Shown doing an art project are (left to right...
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Shorewood Carnival Helps Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 04 1957
Description: Eight Shorewood School first graders pose with their teacher and with Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin. "Roundy's Fun Fund" collected donated money to benefit hand...
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Madison West High School Reunion — Class of '42

Date: 08 10 1957
Description: Members of the Madison West High School Class of 1942 at their reunion at the Park Hotel. Pictured in the first row are: Jane Stolper, Jeanne Noth, Jeanne ...
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Professor M. Robert Irwin Class

Date: 11 06 1957
Description: Television broadcast of a University of Wisconsin class by Professor M. Robert Irwin. Cameramen are standing at recording equipment and at installed lighti...
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: Elevated view of a large group of African-American children. They are attending summer Bible school at their church, Second Baptist Church at 827 Mound str...
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: Three African-American pre-school girls peer out from behind a church pew at summer bible school.
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Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: Traffic safety officer Robert Graves (upper left) lectures Mrs. Olive McKinlay's sixth grade class at Washington school as four police cadets look on. The ...
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Paula Suomi in her seventh grade classroom at Cherokee Junior High. She is the mother of three.
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We Saw You . . . at Edgewood's De Ricci Hall

Date: 09 14 1960
Description: A painter puts on the finishing touches in a classroom in the new De Ricci Hall building on the Edgewood College campus, 855 Woodrow Street, as Sister M. T...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Third grade students gather around teacher Diane Schmitt's desk before school begins. Students are Jerry Tennant, Cathy Kvalheim, Vicky Seltzner, Suzanne N...

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