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| Date: | 04 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Elementary school students paying various levels of attention to classwork in the classroom. |
| Date: | 05 16 1989 |
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| Description: | Sixth grade class members show off their trophy for being "no-hitters." The plaque reads, "Hitting always hurts." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of girls are wearing full-length aprons while using manual hand-mixers to beat the contents of bowls in a domestic economy (home economics) class. ... |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 12 11 1961 |
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| Description: | A structural technology student works on a project in a drawing class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology. |
| Date: | 11 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Students and teacher seated at a long table loaded with food and drinks for a Thanksgiving meal. There are music and English lessons behind them on the cha... |
| Date: | 10 1928 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nash-teacher. 1st Grade: Stella Larson, Donald Knutson, Joyce Allrich, Bernell Wetterlin, Bernard Martindale, Ruth Hanson and Edith Hanson. 2nd Grade:... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Teacher Dorothy Ledin teaching numbers to two pre-schoolers using a board with removable numbers and dots at Ellis School. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Students at Wausau West High School involved in an innovative science project that studied energy consumption and pollution of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 05 1998 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students sitting at tables in a Freedom Summer school in Palmer's Crossing at Priest Creek Baptist Church. Classes were usually held out-of-doors because o... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room. |
| Date: | 04 1990 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey observes the "Charlie Program" in action at an elementary school in his district. Obey was a strong supporter of education and ed... |
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