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Abraham Lincoln Institute, Summer School

Date: 08 02 1945
Description: Group of students on the lawn listening to a teacher. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Mad...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Students at tables, mostly men, with notebooks and calculators. A woman stands near the window wh...
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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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Train of Tomorrow

Date: 05 03 1948
Description: Youngsters from the Lakewood and Waunakee grade schools shown with the "Train of Tomorrow" at the North Western depot. The train was built for General Moto...
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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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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 05 13 1948
Description: Fourth graders at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown using microscopes in the school's science room. Left to right: David Meng, Tom...
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Vera Pay, Exchange Teacher from London

Date: 09 17 1948
Description: Vera Pay, right, exchange teacher from London, England, is shown instructing four Emerson school physical education 6th grade girls who are wearing gym clo...
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Dudgeon School Students

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Johnny Rengstorff looks for a missing hamster near a piano, while Danny Steihl, Susan Lorenz and Phillip Johnson watch. Judy Erb examines the hamster's cag...
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Red Cross Home Nursing Class

Date: 10 17 1949
Description: Thirteen women take a lesson in home nursing from Red Cross volunteer nurse, Leone Higgins, 2231 Oakridge Avenue, seated at the head of the table at left. ...
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Lowell School Sixth Graders at Madison Airport

Date: 10 20 1949
Description: A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor...
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National Book Week at Marquette School

Date: 11 16 1949
Description: Marquette school children posing for a group portrait while dressed up to represent their favorite literary characters. Some of the children are holding si...
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Emerson School Sixth Grade Art Class

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Sixth grade students at Emerson School make lamps in an art class. From left are: Patsy Downs, Wesley Lovejoy, Jerry Ott, and Darlene Butler.
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Lowell School Easter Circus

Date: 04 05 1950
Description: It was Easter Circus time in the East Side Lowell school and hallways this week. Several of Betty Becker's second grade pupils, creators of the paper mach...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum, Evansville, front row left, sits with other students attending a music appreciation class at the University of Wisconsin high school music cli...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 06 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum (second from right) of Evansville plays in the All-State High School Band with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music ...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum of Evansville, front row left, attends a conducting class with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music clinic.
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Madison Vocational School Cake Decorating Class

Date: 1951
Description: Victor Hammersley, a professional baker and teacher, supervises as Elizabeth Zweifel and Mae Grelle decorate a cake at the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Vocational School Typing Class

Date: 04 25 1951
Description: Ferne Stone, Madonna Egan, and Vivian Williams practice typing in the Madison Vocational School commercial department's night school typing class. Eight ot...
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Herbert C. Schenk at Schenk School Dedication

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Herbert C. Schenk and two sixth grade students greet each other at the dedication of the new grade school named for Schenk. The two girls, both wearing sch...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Two new teachers for the deaf, Eleanore Kerski and Margerate Doering, work with two pupils, Joy Anne Rasmus and Sandra Ritter. They are looking into a larg...

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