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Golf Champions

Date: 06 01 1931
Description: Portrait of George Topp and Steve Carvello, both from Blessed Sacrament School, with golf clubs, golf champions, on the Glenway golf course.
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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults are sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
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Heavy Snow

Date: 12 12 1963
Description: Winter scene with Swanson School youngsters playing in the first heavy snow of the season.
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People Playing Golf near Hillside Home School

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Description: People playing golf in the fields at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Thomas Ridge

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Description: People playing golf on Thomas Ridge at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wrigh...
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Lincoln School "Ranch Hands"

Date: 10 08 1949
Description: Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb...
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Unitarian Work Campers Cleaning School Grounds

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Description: Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush.
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Hosiery Workers

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Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Clambake at Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island.
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Civil Rights Workshop Members Wearing Hats

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Description: Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat.
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Fun with an Old Nail Keg

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Description: A boy named Henry rolling down a hill in an old nail keg. Part of the Highlander Folk School nursery. There is also a girl in the background with another ...
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Play Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Janet Kuhlman, Cherlyn Litchfield, and Larry Litchfield are modeling clay inside Marquette School.
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 28 1949
Description: At left, Penny Brown, 201 North Broom Street, and her doll clothing and hat exhibit. At right, Karen Peterson, 212 Marion Street, models one of the hats.
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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Liberty School District #1 School Building

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Description: View across lawn of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with students and a teacher playing baseball on the right in the middle distance.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of students and teachers posing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Some of the boys wear baseball gloves. A hill rises in the ba...
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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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State Normal School Girls' Tennis Courts

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Description: Elevated view of girls playing tennis on the lawn at the State Normal School.
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"Hobo" Party at Woldale Rural School

Date: 1913
Description: Group gathered in the gymnasium of the Woldale Rural School for a Christmas "hobo" party. Attendees are dressed as "hobos." The original caption notes that...

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