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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence 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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Story Time

Date: 09 26 1967
Description: Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on.
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Beauty Class

Date: 1927
Description: A beauty culture class in session.
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Home Economics — Cooking Class

Date: 1922
Description: Female students in a home economics cooking class at the School of Agriculture in Olds, Alberta, Canada.
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West Junior High School Students

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: One West Junior High School student drawing on a U.S. map, with three other students looking on.
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Vocational Students Mail Christmas Seals

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: A group of Madison vocational school students preparing Christmas Seals for distribution by the Madison Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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Deaf Children in the Classroom

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Four deaf children are sitting at a table playing at life experiences at Doty School. Sentences on the blackboard describe their activity to help them lear...
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Longfellow School Disabled Students

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Dudgeon School Museum Project

Date: 05 07 1931
Description: 6th grade Dudgeon school museum project of a display of objects from other cultures. Caption reads: "A sixth grade museum project — antiques."
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Dudgeon School Museum Project

Date: 05 06 1931
Description: 6th grade Dudgeon school museum project of a display of objects from other cultures. Caption reads: "A sixth grade museum project — relics."
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Anatomy Lab

Date: 1900
Description: Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College.
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1941
Description: A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ...
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Vocational School Typing Room

Date: 11 22 1954
Description: Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street. View of typing room #442 from the back, featuring IBM typewriters. The ceiling...
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Vocational School Typing Room

Date: 11 22 1954
Description: Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street. Angled view of a typing room #442 from the front of the classroom. There are l...
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 10 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Night Session Art Class

Date: 1949
Description: A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee.
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School Store Room

Date: 03 23 1934
Description: Interior of a school storage room filled with desks and other school supplies, including a Smith Sanitary Bubbler Fountain (may be the origin of the region...

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