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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...
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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.
Book or Pamphlet

International School Buses

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Cover features a photographic illustration of school children boarding a bus for the...
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Female Students in Evening Class

Date: 12 10 1919
Description: Women pose at their desks in an evening class. Three women (teachers?) stand in the back. Mathematical equations are written on the blackboards in the ba...
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Deering Works Electricity Lecture

Date: 1905
Description: A group of men sit at desks and listen to J. Newman from Deering Works give a lecture on electricity.
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Apprentice Classroom at McCormick Works

Date: 1949
Description: A group of young men receive instruction in the apprentice classroom at McCormick Works.
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Butch Quirk in the Classroom

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old student John "Butch" Quirk stands in a classroom surrounded by his seated classmates. The original magazine caption reads: "School Boy: '...
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Interior of Schoolhouse on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: An interior view of "the village school" on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. A teacher stands while a classroom full of students sit at...
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Men at Education and Training Center

Date: 1946
Description: Rear view of group of employees sitting at tables to watch as an instructor demonstrates a lesson on a chalkboard at International Harvester's Education an...
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Students and Teacher in Classroom

Date: 1946
Description: A man stands behind a table and addresses a teacher in a classroom at International Harvester's Education and Training Center. The teacher sits beside an e...
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International School Bus

Date: 12 18 1936
Description: An International school bus full of children drives down a long dirt road in a rural area. The bus is approaching an intersection, and a house is on the co...
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Girls Getting on Bus

Date: 02 12 1935
Description: Four girls wearing winter hats and coats are stepping off a curb near a building to get on an International school bus owned by New Woodstock High School.
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Boy Exiting Bus

Date: 03 05 1935
Description: A boy exits an International bus wearing a hat and carrying a book, and a young girl stands on the steps behind him. Other children look out the window fro...
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High School Band Plays in Street

Date: 1942
Description: The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The...
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Children Playing on School Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of school children running and playing on open school grounds. There is a schoolhouse in the background.
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Young Men Laying Out Ears of Corn

Date: 1918
Description: Two young men, probably students, laying ears of corn on wooden table.
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Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.
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Students Making Stenciled Charts

Date: 02 1916
Description: Young students making stenciled charts with teacher J.W. Page at the Morton Grove School. Original caption reads: "Another view of a school making junior c...
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Students Sitting at Desks

Date: 1919
Description: View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the r...
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Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...

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