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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Mendota Beach School

Date: 1922
Description: View from front of classroom of children sitting in desks at the elementary school health program, blowing their noses.
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Mendota Beach School Classroom

Date: 1922
Description: View from front of classroom of children sitting at desks at the Mendota Beach School.
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Sewing Class

Date: 1898
Description: From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J...
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Classroom Activities

Date: 04 07 1961
Description: Elementary school students paying various levels of attention to classwork in the classroom.
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Class on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Date: 12 06 1967
Description: Instructor teaching the harmful effects of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs.
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Cooking Class for Males

Date: 04 03 1933
Description: A class of males at work on kitchen activities.
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Mock Convention

Date: 11 01 1968
Description: A mock presidential political convention at a middle school.
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Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Vocational School Class

Date: 01 08 1915
Description: Young men sitting in class at the Continuation School.
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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Class in Session

Date: 05 01 1963
Description: A female student leads a class of fellow students. She is a member of the Future Teachers of America Club.
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School Boys Tying Knots

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Description: School boys of various ages stand at the front of a classroom tying knots, while female students look on from their desks.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Division Class

Date: 1919
Description: Men in a University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Division class under Professor Consoliner. This appears to be an engineering class.
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Classroom Lessons

Date: 04 27 1956
Description: One girl is writing on the blackboard while students are sitting at their desks paying various degrees of attention at Leland School.
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Pupils Learning About Thrift

Date: 1919
Description: Students are raising their arms as an instructor is discussing the merits of thrift. The instructor is pointing to chalkboard illustrations of a well groom...
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University Students Attending Lecture

Date: 10 17 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin students attending a lecture in Room 272 Bascom Hall.

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