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Sun Prairie Freshman Class

Date: 1914
Description: Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image.
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Ira Colby

Date: 1860
Description: Ninth plate ambrotype quarter-length portrait of Mr. Ira Colby, a teacher of the Union School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has a beard and is wearing a suit ...
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Obey and Lucey

Date: 1965
Description: Assemblyman David R. Obey and Patrick J. Lucey meeting with a group of students and their teacher, a nun, in the Wisconsin Assembly Parlor. Although undat...
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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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Kermit Schulz

Date: 1931
Description: Kermit Schulz poses in front of a pine tree wearing a three piece suit. He is the teacher at Rhine Center School, District No. 6.
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Francis T. Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1928
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone wall at Saint Raphael's School. David O'Dea is seated cross-legged on the ground, 3rd from the right. He is poss...
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Kitten Ball

Date: 1932
Description: A girl poses with a bat as a second girl holds a ball. Two young men in sweaters, identified as students from Whitewater Teachers College (now the Universi...
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Class Group Portrait Featuring Emma Schmitt

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in...
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Sunday School Class

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Schmitt's (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) Sunday School class. Emma is in the first one on the left in the first row.
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School Picnic

Date: 06 30 1905
Description: Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha...
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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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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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William H. Church with his Schoolteacher

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of William H. Church with his schoolteacher, both sitting and facing forward. The man on the right has his arm around the shoulder of...
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Badger School 8th Grade Class Portrait

Date: 1951
Description: Badger School 8th grade class portrait. The front row is sitting on a bench and the back row is standing. Some of the girls are wearing saddle shoes. In th...
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Rev. David Lowry

Date: 1840
Description: Waist-up portrait of Reverend David Lowry. Lowry was appointed to be a teacher for the Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Tribe by Andrew Jackson. In 1834, he started a ...
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Woodward Avenue School Faculty

Date: 09 1919
Description: Teachers and administrators at Woodward Avenue School posing for a group portrait in front of the brick school building. Jeannette Holt is sitting in the f...
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Ephraim Centennial Celebration

Date: 05 18 1953
Description: Two women in historical dress posing with a man. Caption reads: "Left to right: Dorothy Sohns an Ephraim Wis school teacher Hjalmar Holand * and Mrs. Olga ...
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George Wiley as a Chemistry Professor

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Description: Activist and science teacher George Wiley wearing a white lab coat and a bow tie while teaching a chemistry class.

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