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Freedom School Class

Date: 1964
Description: A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ...
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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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School Children Eating

Date: 1919
Description: Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t...
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WWI Pilot

Date: 1918
Description: Captain John B. Stetson, Jr., the officer in charge of flying instruction at the American Expeditionary Force, 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, ...
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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AAA Driver Training Car

Date: 10 27 1938
Description: AAA dual-control training car parked at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. Several students are in the car, a Pontiac, with a man standing next...
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Professor Edward Ross in Tahiti

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of Professor Ross and five friends in native dress in Tahiti. Two of the people are sitting on a stack of logs, with a cat sitting between t...
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Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge

Date: 11 22 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching bridge and the use of the Fulton Shur-Win Bidder to a table of four women. Sitting left to right are: Esther Hermsen, Inger Emery, G...
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Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge Class

Date: 11 15 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching a bridge class to large group of well-dressed women at the Loraine Hotel.
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Community Union Teacher Solicitors

Date: 09 15 1932
Description: Group portrait of six teachers who have been designated by the Madison Teachers' Association to conduct solicitation in the schools.
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Playground Instructors Group

Date: 06 10 1932
Description: Playground instructors group, men and women, with department heads.
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Around-the-world Telephone Call

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co...
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Teachers Picket

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school.
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Lodi School Students Posed by Age

Date: 1877
Description: Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b...
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Pechanga Day School

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Description: Students and teachers in front of Pechanga day school at Mission Agency.
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Nambe Day School

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Description: A page from an album of photographs of Pueblo Indian Day Schools, showing the Nambe Day School. Miss Lizzie M. Lampson, the teacher, gathers with others n...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1899
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a schoolmaster in front of men from many nations. Includes the caption "all natio...
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Miss Harriette Holt and Mrs. Warren W. Clark

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Harriette Holt on the left, and Mrs. Warren W. Clark on the right, at the birthday party held for Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Dow...
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School Meeting

Date: 1917
Description: View from back of room of children sitting in a classroom for a Union Pacific preparedness special campaign. The instructor is pointing to a sign reading: ...

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