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School Boys Tying Knots

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Description: School boys of various ages stand at the front of a classroom tying knots, while female students look on from their desks.
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Barber Science Class

Date: 08 27 1929
Description: Students in the first class in Barber Science with instructor, Chester Feavel, pointing at an anatomy chart.
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Pima Agency Classroom

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Description: A man in a classroom at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1904
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of harvesting machinery. The illustration shows a man with spectacles and g...
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Members of the general metals classes at Madison East High School make canes for injured veterans returning from the war. Students Robert Safranek and Merl...
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Night Session Art Class

Date: 1949
Description: A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee.
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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars.
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Education Press Conference

Date: 1978
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journal...
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Computer Assisted Learning

Date: 05 1998
Description: As part of his support for education, Congressman David Obey visited many schools within his district. Here he observed elementary school students in Wisco...
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Rhine Center Classroom

Date: 1931
Description: Students at Rhine Center School pose at their desks for a group portrait. Most of the boys are wearing neckties. Twins Herbert and Norbert Hornbeck, 13, ar...
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Graduation

Date: 1929
Description: Seven pupils graduating from the Mayo School, District No. 1, posing sitting in a row in their classroom. The room has been decorated with flowers, crepe p...
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Underwriters Training Course

Date: 05 03 1960
Description: A group of twenty men sit on either side of long tables while taking a three month training course in accident and health insurance underwriting.
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Garfield School Students

Date: 09 1955
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth grade students at Garfield School, with their teacher, Grace Sorenson.
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International Harvester RV Service Training Program

Date: 07 08 1974
Description: International Harvester RV service training Program goes mobile. Original caption reads, "Photo #TF-1106 A and B-- International Trucks will bring its RV s...
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Nukewatch Classroom

Date: 07 1986
Description: A boy in a classroom wears a red necktie with his school uniform. Other children stand around him also wearing red neckties.
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Vel Phillips and President Jimmy Carter in Classroom

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Description: Rear view of President Jimmy Carter and Vel Phillips standing in a classroom talking with a group of people. There is a map on the left and a chalkboard in...
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Vel Phillips in Classroom

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Description: View from side of classroom towards Vel Phillips who is standing behind a teacher's desk. There are a group of unidentified adults sitting in the classroom...
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Vel Phillips Speaking in Classroom

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Description: View from back of classroom towards Vel Phillips standing behind a desk. The chalkboard behind her reads: "Protective" and "Public Works." There is a map o...
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Margaret McGuire Visiting Summer School

Date: 1948
Description: View from audience of Margaret McGuire visiting a Summer School Farm Classroom for music teachers taught by Fred Waring.
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Teachers

Date: 1914
Description: A group of male and female Cook County teachers studying corn, preparatory to taking up this work in their rural schools.

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