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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Margaret Mead Newspaper Article

Date: 
Description: A newspaper photograph of Margaret Mead with an article about her appearance and speech at a Civics Club event.
Photograph

Commandos L Meeting and Lecture

Date: 1963
Description: A meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L. A man is standing at the front of the room writing on a chalkboard and other members are sitting and listen...
Manuscript

Madison Civics Club Luncheon Menu

Date: 03 14 1942
Description: Typewritten menu for the luncheon meeting of the Madison Civics Club held at the Loraine Hotel, with photographer Margaret Bourke-White as speaker. Over 50...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet

Date: 01 12 1959
Description: The University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet, sponsored by the University's Bureau of Lectures and Concerts, presents a musical biography of Richard Rogers. P...
Photograph

Earth Day 1970

Date: 04 1970
Description: Acting on the suggestion of his mentor Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin congressman David R. Obey participated (here at a gym) at the first Earth Day even...
Poster

"Krise des Marxismus?" Poster

Date: 06 03 1983
Description: Poster announcing a discussion at Ernst Bloch University on the 100th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx. Poster has black text and image on a white bac...
Photograph

Dairy Calf Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet (center), an editor of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, addresses a crowd of men, women and children at the Walworth County 4-H Club Picnic at...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t...
Photograph

Kentucky Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp Speaks at Summer Clinic

Date: 08 03 1961
Description: Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp lectures at the Wisconsin High School Coaches Association annual summer basketball clinic. Shown (L-R) kneeling are W...
Photograph

Dr. Karfft A. Ehricke, Space Scientist

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Portrait of Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, program director of the astronautics division of General Dynamics Corporation. He spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater t...
Photograph

"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...
Photograph

"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...
Photograph

"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...
Photograph

Rally Held at the State Capital to Call For Passage of the Federal Civil Rights Bill

Date: 04 25 1964
Description: Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, president of the Alabama Movement for Human Rights and a close associate of Rev. Martin Luther King, speaks to a rally of 400 p...
Photograph

Football Coaches at the Wisconsin High School Coaches Association Clinic

Date: 08 04 1964
Description: Bob Odell, head football coach at Bucknell University, left, discussing football with Burt Hable, center, of Madison West and Harland Carl, right, of Neena...
Photograph

Negro Professor

Date: 08 07 1964
Description: Alabama A and M College professor Dorothea Smith speaking at a press conference. She was one of 51 mathematics teachers from 40 predominantly Negro college...
Photograph

The Big Job of Baby Sitting

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 14 who want to be baby sitters are sitting in class at the Bank of Sun Prairie during one of the six one-hour bab...
Photograph

Juvenile Delinquency Addressed

Date: 05 25 1965
Description: Angelo Gonzalez, a former New York City street gang leader, presented a plan to end juvenile delinquency to Madison police officers, judges, and probation ...
Postcard

Invitation

Date: 1942
Description: Printed invitation announcing a meeting of the Lake Geneva Garden Club to be held at the home of Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener. It features a stylized drawing of...

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