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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service volunteers, sponsored by Attic Angels, conduct a child health examination at Longfellow School. Rea Ragatz, center, is watching Dr. ...
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The Farmers Union Bets On You!

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Description: A man is holding a baby in his lap, and the words: "The Farmers Union Bets on You" is collaged next to him. Part of a series of Highlander photomontages fr...
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Kindergarten Registration at Marquette School

Date: 09 13 1948
Description: Evelyn Frish, a kindergarten teacher at Marquette School, registers students for the new school year in the Marquette School gymnasium.
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Health Class

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Description: A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps.
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Class for Mothers

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Description: A health care worker is instructing two mothers how to select shoes and stockings for their children. On the wall is a poster on clothing and shoes.
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Helen Woodbury

Date: 1933
Description: Helen Woodbury, age 12, a student at the Cloverland School, is pictured sitting in a small chair holding her baby brother, Jackie. They are posing just out...
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School Picnic

Date: 06 30 1905
Description: Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha...
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Winter Street Scene

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Description: View down snow-covered path towards a woman pushing a child in a sleigh buggy. Location identified as probably looking from Third Street past the 1897 scho...
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The Big Job of Baby Sitting

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Trained baby sitter Colleen Russell, 14, heating a bottle in the kitchen of Robert and JoAnn Kessenich. In the foreground is 8 month old Nancy. At right, ...
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Weighing and Measuring Campaign, Lincoln School

Date: 1918
Description: Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ...
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Nakoma Red Cross Bloodmobile

Date: 02 27 1958
Description: Two babies who would have died without donated blood meet two Nakoma school sixth-grade blood donor recruiters for an upcoming Nakoma Bloodmobile visit. Sa...
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Carol Baumann (Mrs. Richard J. Baumann)

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Laughing-eyed, red-haired Dawn Baumann, 10 months, receives plenty of affection and attention from her mother, Carol Baumann.
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Carol Baumann (Mrs. Richard J. Baumann)

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Busy as they are with their separate careers, the Baumanns are never too busy to spend adequate time each day playing with their baby, a happy little girl ...
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Page 15 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Mother, Bob and Sister, October, 1920." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "Rober...

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