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Dead for the Country

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Description: A cross with the inscription "Morts Pour La Patrie." Captioned "Dead for the Country," a familiar sign in the valley of the Marne.
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Language Lab Reel-To-Reel Tape Machines

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College.
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East High School German Club

Date: 03 05 1930
Description: East High School German Club.
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Jean Meunier Keith

Date: 05 24 1955
Description: Jean Meunier Keith (Mrs. Jack Keith), who was presented with a book as an honorable mention prize in the annual Hugh A. Smith award for excellence in Frenc...
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Professor Eduardo Neale-Silva

Date: 08 07 1944
Description: Portrait of Eduardo Neale-Silva, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in Talca, Chile, in 1905, and became a res...
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Reaper in Factory Yard

Date: 09 03 1912
Description: An experimental reaper(?) in a factory yard. There is a Russian name on the Reaper, and the front is set up on saw-horses. Men are working near a brick fac...
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YWCA Benefit Tea

Date: 05 25 1956
Description: Assistant hostesses at the YWCA benefit tea for internationally speaking foreign students are left to right: Nan Rasmussen, Linda Bacon, Evelyn Gaumnitz an...
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Interior View of McCormick Works

Date: 04 23 1906
Description: Grain binder on the floor of an IH factory, probably the McCormick Works. At the top is a directional sign for employees in three different languages; Czec...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. Sister Catheri...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. William Hein i...
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Allied Soldiers

Date: 1916
Description: Allied soldiers gathered near an entrance to an unknown establishment. A sign in French above the entrance is not legible, but there is an image of a crick...
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"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
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"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
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"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
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Front and Back Cover of Bound German Document

Date: 1907
Description: Front and back cover of a bound German document. The bottom half of the front cover is torn off.
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Tattered Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside pages of a tattered bound document written in German, with handwritten notes filling in blanks on the left page, and handwriting near a stamp on the...
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Inside Pages of a Book

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Handwriting filling in the blanks on two inside pages of a bound document. The document is in German. On the bottom of the left page is a signature that re...
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Page of a Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside front cover and first page of a bound document written in German. The blanks are filled in with handwriting. On the bottom right is an official stam...
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Carved Nisse Playing a Hardanger Fiddle at Nordic Fest

Date: 07 25 2015
Description: Carved wooden figure of a Nisse playing a fiddle. The figure has a long white beard and is wearing a red cap. Norwegian words carved into the base of the f...

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