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Shops at Indian Industrial School

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Description: Exterior view of the shops at the Indian Industrial School. Groups of young men are posed in front of the building.
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Edwin Helman gets advice from Mrs. Romance Koopman about a script. On the wall behind them is a mural depicting three men important in the founding of stat...
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Women's Marching Band

Date: 1878
Description: Elevated view of the women's marching band from John Wanamaker Commercial Institute performing, with children walking beside them and standing on the side ...
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Female students garden next to the Home Economics Practice House. The house has clapboard siding on its two stories and there is a porch on the front and b...
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Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Seal is on the left. On the right is the name of the sc...
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Plowing on International Harvester Company Farm

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester employees using the company's tractors and plows to work in a field on a company farm in Tifton. International Har...
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International Harvester Employees with Competitor's Plow

Date: 1962
Description: Instructor Jim Brosnahan (left, with foot on plow) gathers around a Kewaunee plow with International Harvester employees to study it at an International Ha...
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Bale Thrower at Tifton

Date: 1962
Description: Men gather in the field on an International Harvester company farm to watch the demonstration of a bale thrower. International Harvester offered classes on...
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International Harvester Company Farm

Date: 1962
Description: View over shoulder of a man facing away and wearing a straw hat and a shirt reading "IH Marches On" as he looks across a field on the International Harvest...
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Men on Tractors

Date: 1962
Description: International Harvester salesmen drive tractors on a dirt road alongside a field on the company farm at Tifton. International Harvester offered classes on ...
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Guide Dog Training School

Date: 08 1958
Description: Gypsy, a guide dog at the Cambridge Double-A Guiding Dogs, Inc. school with trainer, Burlee Rowe, demonstrates how the dogs are taught to pick up an articl...
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Guide Dog Training School

Date: 08 1958
Description: Gypsy, a guide dog at the Cambridge Double-A Guiding Dogs, Inc. School, and her trainer, Burlee Rowe, demonstrating how dogs are taught to pick up an artic...
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Maple Bluff Fire School

Date: 11 12 1960
Description: A scene from a fire school held by the Maple bluff fire department for their volunteer firemen. They witnessed demonstrations on how to put out different t...
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Eau Claire Vocational, Technical and Adult School

Date: 1963
Description: Aerial view of Eau Claire Vocational, Technical and Adult School campus. Postmark is May 4, 1982. Mailed to U.S. Representative David Obey in Washington, ...
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Learning Better Farming

Date: 1925
Description: A Caucasian man in a suit is standing at the center of a large arbor. Native American men and women are sitting or standing around him, while a Native Amer...
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St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing Crowning Ceremony

Date: 05 21 1959
Description: Students of St. Mary's hospital School of Nursing held their annual May crowning ceremony by crowning the statue of the Blessed Virgin with a wreath of flo...

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