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Edgewood Kindergarten

Date: 08 26 1932
Description: Edgewood kindergarten play corner with children, including Jack Kurth, Alex McCormick, Kathleen Kellogg, Dorothy Fox, Bobbie McCormick, and Patsy McCarthy....
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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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Washington School Kindergarten

Date: 01 24 1935
Description: Washington School kindergarten class, 217 N. Broom Street, with children playing in a boat built of blocks.
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Marquette School "Grocery Store"

Date: 03 16 1932
Description: Grade 3A at Marquette school playing "grocery store."
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b...
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children sitting on the floor and working on art projects at tables in the nursery school at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was de...
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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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Superior Bookmobile

Date: 08 30 1938
Description: A group of children lines up outside the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck), parked in a playground area. Other children holding ...
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Young Students Playing

Date: 1939
Description: A young boy and a young girl playing in their kindergarten classroom near a ladder and slide.
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Young Students in the Classroom

Date: 1939
Description: A young boy and a young girl playing in their kindergarten classroom. Desks, chairs, easels, a fireplace, and a broom are visible in the background.
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Playing in the Classroom

Date: 1939
Description: A group of students playing in their kindergarten classroom with a large train model.
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Nursery School For Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Volunteer Kathleen Joachim looks after two unnamed children as they handle clay at a table. "As a philanthropic project, the Madison alumnae group of Kappa...
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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...
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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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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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