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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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Emerson School Classroom

Date: 10 01 1931
Description: Emerson School children and teacher listen to a radio broadcast from a radio set up in front of the blackboard in the classroom at 2421 East Johnson Street...
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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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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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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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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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Teacher Reading to School Children

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Description: A school teacher reads to elementary school children, who are sitting on the floor in a large, open classroom.
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Classroom at State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students sitting in desks while writing on what appear to be slates. A group sitting in a circle at the back of the room are possibly pract...
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Health Class

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Description: View from behind of group of woman and children sitting in chairs and listening as an instructor points to a chart on the wall. The instructor is teaching ...
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Children and Instructors in Classroom

Date: 1916
Description: A group of children sitting at desks raising their arms while being led in a classroom activity by a male instructor. Four women and one man are sitting an...
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Lesson at Mount Prospect High School

Date: 1917
Description: View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt...
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Lesson on Eradication of Cattle Tick

Date: 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches inside Cottage Hill School as they watch Professor P.G. Holden give a presentation on the era...
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North Vietnam School

Date: 1967
Description: Kindergarten classroom in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa, showing the ditch in the center of the room that ran to the air raid shelter. Two men sta...
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Sunday School at St. Peter's Church

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Brenda Widmer teaches her beginning Sunday School pupils at St. Peter's Church. They are: l-r. Kim Neitzel, Kim Krueger, Jimmy Wendling, Brenda Bernhard, ...
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One Room School House Classroom

Date: 10 1928
Description: Mrs. Nash-teacher. 1st Grade: Stella Larson, Donald Knutson, Joyce Allrich, Bernell Wetterlin, Bernard Martindale, Ruth Hanson and Edith Hanson. 2nd Grade:...
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Computer Assisted Learning

Date: 05 1998
Description: As part of his support for education, Congressman David Obey visited many schools within his district. Here he observed elementary school students in Wisco...

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