Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 493

Photograph

Freedom School Class

Date: 1964
Description: A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ...
Photograph

Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
Photograph

Kindergarten Students

Date: 
Description: Students gathered closely around their teachers in the kindergarten room on the south end of the school. The open hearth, fireplace, high ceilings and wind...
Photograph

Student Leadership Conference

Date: 05 04 1962
Description: Student Leadership Conference, May 4-6, including Ella Baker (front row, far left), Carl Braden (second row, hands clasped around knees), Anne Braden (seco...
Photograph

Graduation Ceremony

Date: 
Description: Group of graduates in robes lined up outdoors.
Photograph

Country Dale School Classroom

Date: 11 25 1966
Description: In a view from beneath a television stand, seventh grade students are listening to a lecture in their classroom at Country Dale school.
Photograph

Classroom Activities

Date: 04 07 1961
Description: Elementary school students paying various levels of attention to classwork in the classroom.
Photograph

Mock Convention

Date: 11 01 1968
Description: A mock presidential political convention at a middle school.
Photograph

Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
Photograph

Gross Anatomy

Date: 1902
Description: Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor...
Photograph

School Children Eating

Date: 1919
Description: Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t...
Postcard

Milwaukee Flying School

Date: 1912
Description: An unidentified student among a group of men getting a lesson in a Curtiss plane at Rudolph Silverston's Milwaukee School and College of Aviation. Caption ...
Photograph

Classroom Lessons

Date: 04 27 1956
Description: One girl is writing on the blackboard while students are sitting at their desks paying various degrees of attention at Leland School.
Photograph

Home Economics — Cooking Class

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

Edgewood High School Committee Meeting

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Four girls sitting in the parlor of Marshall Hall at Edgewood High School, 1000 Edgewood Avenue, for a committee meeting.
Photograph

Langdon Hall Front Entrance

Date: 10 1941
Description: Front entrance to Langdon Hall, 633 Langdon Street, with five coeds posing on the steps.
Photograph

Sixth Grade, Dudgeon School

Date: 06 07 1939
Description: Group portrait of sixth grade students sitting at their desks at Dudgeon School, 3200 Monroe Street.
Photograph

Madison College Party Group

Date: 02 15 1939
Description: Group portrait of Madison College party group in Crystal Ballroom, Loraine Hotel.
Photograph

Pageant Cast

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Group portrait of east side elementary and high school students on stage at East High School rehearsing for a pageant called "The Children" to be presented...
Photograph

School Safety Patrol Officer

Date: 06 17 1937
Description: Outdoor portrait of a Lincoln School boy in safety patrol officer uniform.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: