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Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
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Migrant Students in the Library Corner

Date: 1961
Description: Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner."
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Washington School Library Class

Date: 10 20 1930
Description: Interior view of the Washington school library class for the 5th and 6th grade.
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Students at Their Desks

Date: 1933
Description: Students sitting at their desks with their books open at Potter School, District No. 3. Magazines and newspapers hang on a line strung against the back wal...
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
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Bay Hill School Classroom

Date: 1930
Description: Ten students sitting at their desks in the classroom at Bay Hill School. Their teacher, Alice Holloway, stands at the back holding a book. Blackboards cove...
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Dunham School Class

Date: 1946
Description: Students and teacher in the classroom at Dunham School. The room is filled with desks, chairs, books, a blackboard and a globe. Three large window can be s...
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The School at Work

Date: 1931
Description: Students work at their desks in the Mayo School, District No. 1. A row of books forms the foreground; history lessons from the time of reconstruction after...
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The School at Work

Date: 1933
Description: Miss Harriet Cruver, teacher at Hillcrest School, Dist. No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, stands at the rear of her classroom ...
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WSJ's Sunday Funland Puzzle Contest Winner

Date: 04 07 1964
Description: Children of St. Mary of the Lake school gather around as Lawrence Fitzpatrick (left), managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, presents a 20 volume ...
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Lay Teacher's Assistants Help Teachers in Madison Schools

Date: 11 11 1965
Description: Thirteen lay teacher's assistants are hired to assist teachers in nine different Madison schools where the number of students exceeds 30 or 32 in the class...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Susan Jakel, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of th...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Greg Gessert, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with his classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of t...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Ellen Nicholson, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part o...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Jacklynn Dulek, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of...
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Peck's Bad Boy in School

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of mischievous schoolboys in a classroom. One boy is reacting to something sharp on his desk chair and two boys are enjoying the results of the...
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Paula Suomi in her seventh grade classroom at Cherokee Junior High. She is the mother of three.
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We Saw You . . . at Nursery School

Date: 11 22 1960
Description: Story hour time at the Salvation Army all day nursery school, 121 West Wilson Street. Boys and girls are shown listening to a teacher reading from a book. ...
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Story Time

Date: 1976
Description: A group of children is seated on the floor and in chairs, listening to a teacher reading during story time. One boy is lying on the floor. A nun is standin...

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