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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First graders at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students admire kittens and ...
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
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Lincoln School Fourth Graders

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Two fourth graders at Lincoln School, Freddiemae Hill, left, and Russell Allen, Jr, right, are observing 10,000 bees that are preparing for winter in their...
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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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Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: At left, Billy Powers of 306 Norris Court shows his butterfly collection to classmate Dennis Rose, 1028 Clymer Place. The butterfly collection won first p...
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Opossum at Lincoln School

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Three girls from Lincoln School pose with an opossum that escaped from its cage. The students are, left to right, Nancy Hagen, Jean Diane Gutzman, and Jane...
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Guinea Pig

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Randall school student John Drake, wearing a Boy Scout uniform, holding his classroom's newborn guinea pig named "Mix-Up, Jr."
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Marquette School

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Bob West has discovered that life in the underground ant colony consists of building homes, storing food and caring for babies. The ant colony has been a p...
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Our Lady of Wisdom Academy

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Description: A view toward the back wall of a classroom at Our Lady of Wisdom Academy. A large case containing taxidermied birds and mounted butterflies takes up most o...
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Mount St. Joseph

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Description: A view of the Museum and Science Room at Mount St. Joseph. Taxidermied birds and fish are arranged on the shelves of a display cabinet standing along the w...
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
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Men and Women with Cow in Classroom

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Description: Elevated view of men and women in a classroom, with two cows standing at the front of the room. There is a blackboard on the wall in the background. Some o...

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