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Learning Their Numbers

Date: 1978
Description: Teacher Dorothy Ledin teaching numbers to two pre-schoolers using a board with removable numbers and dots at Ellis School.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: University of Wisconsin graduate (BS & MS) Anita Reith, director of the Unitarian Meeting House Nursery school, conducts an experiment with two of her stud...
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Alpha Chi Omega Entertain Small Cerebral Palsy Victims

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: The caption states: "Alpha Chi girls majoring in child development, Gwyneth Fair, left, and Dorthy Bell, entertain two small victims of cerebral palsy. The...
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Mary Lee Griggs and Children with Blocks

Date: 1941
Description: Mary Lee Griggs, head of Parent Education and director of the Play School at Neighborhood House, with Catherine Oliva, Delores Caire, and Sam Moskowsky. Th...
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Mary Lee Griggs and Children at Neighborhood House

Date: 1967
Description: Mary Lee Griggs, director of the Play School at Neighborhood House, with Elizabeth Schuch, Joseph Oliva, Joseph Pelitteri, and Yoshi Goto. Two of these chi...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
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Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: The set of WMTV's Romper Room program, showing "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) with her kindergarten "pupils." They include, from left: David Shwaiko, Marg...
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Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) posing with a Good Behavior Poster on the set of WMTV's Romper Room program.
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Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) and five "pupils" sit at tables on the set of WMTV's Romper Room.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Play School

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
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Nursery School for Mentally Challenged Children

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: Virginia Gibson works with a child with Down's Syndrome at the nursery school of the Madison Area Council on Retardation (sic) at First Congregation...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
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...
Postcard

The First Kindergarten in America

Date: 
Description: Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ...
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Little Badgers

Date: 11 30 1957
Description: Glenn Nording (left), Middleton High School basketball coach and former U.W. Wisconsin boxer, corrects the boxing postures of three boys who are holding up...
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We Saw You . . . on First Day of New Term

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Bright smiles on the faces of proud children and mothers are evident on the first day of the new school term. Shown are Mrs. Don Reppen with daughters (L-R...
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We Saw You at Luther Memorial Nursery School

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Debbie Wright and Scott Hubbel are shown pretending to be mama and papa doing dishes at Luther Memorial Church's nursery school for children ages 3 and 4.
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We Saw You at Luther Memorial Nursery School

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Irene Larsen, director of the Luther Memorial Church Nursery School, is shown with two of the children, Lynnea Ekestrom and Craig Lang.
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We Saw You at Luther Memorial Nursery School

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Teacher Jean Kasinski assists with nursery school classes at Luther Memorial Church. The children are, left to right, Cathy Copps and Linda Stephl.

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