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Telephone Conversation

Date: 03 27 1963
Description: A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool.
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Children at School Table

Date: 1900
Description: Children in a kindergarten class sit around a table with their teacher, probably Flora LeClaire. The calendars on the wall indicate that this photograph w...
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Recreation at Franklin School

Date: 03 24 1949
Description: Several young girls are shown performing their "push-me, pull-you" exercise. Nearest the camera are Mary Holtz and Phyllis Garland. Then come Barbara Drake...
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Children with Bookmobile at Playground

Date: 08 30 1938
Description: Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original...
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Randall School Cotton Project

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Fritzi Pohle exhibits the diorama she constructed for the Randall school third grade cotton project.
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Madison Summer Workshop for Deaf Children

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Mrs. Nettie Chase plays the part of the store clerk at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Ready to "purchase" fruit from the clerk are Sh...
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First Day of Kindergarten

Date: 09 11 1950
Description: Frances Morrison's kindergarten pupils sitting at a table on their first day of school at Longfellow. They are, from left to right, Bonnie Hammersley, Sand...
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Morningside Tuberculosis Sanatorium Classroom

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Teacher Mrs. Barbara Austin sitting with seven of her students in a classroom at Morningside Sanatorium at 300 Femrite Drive. The young patients averaged a...
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St. Patrick's School Students

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Four third grade boys are shown sitting on the steps outside St. Patrick's School, located at 630 East Washington Avenue, on the first day of school. The ...
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United Givers Fund Campaign

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Salvation Army's Nursery School, a Red Feather agency, is inspected by Stanton Stavrum, head of United Givers Fund Business and Industrial Employees Divisi...
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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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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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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: 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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Blessed Martin House Nursery School

Date: 10 19 1960
Description: Students from Edgewood College assist Donna Jones, director of the Blessed Martin House nursery school, which will benefit from the annual bazaar of the De...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: At Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, children play games in celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Twins Gretchen and Christine Wilkie are pretending to be turk...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 10 1953
Description: Cynthia Gelman and Sidney Tallard, children in Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, stand on chairs while inspecting a Thanksgiving poster on the nursery sch...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Robert Jamieson and Patricia Tallard, children in Mrs. V. B. Roberts' nursery school, color and cut out paper turkeys as part of a Thanksgiving project.
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The Big Job of Baby Sitting

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: David Humphrey, 12, a trained baby sitter, is shown reading to Ann Marie Upham, 3; her brother, Tommy, 4 1/2; and Rusty Sherlock, 3 1/2 at the Upham home i...

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