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Shy Guy

Date: 02
Description: Crowned queen and king of Valentine's Day celebrate over a card.
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Madison Youth Council's Spring Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Jack Gay, left, and George Koehler, two of the leaders of the Madison Youth Council's spring clean-up campaign, are shown going over the final details for ...
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Magdalina Sara Jungck, as a School Teacher

Date: 1905
Description: Magdalina Sara Jungck, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a school teacher, lashing a boy student over a desk. Part of a yearbo...
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Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
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Magda Herzberger with Plaque

Date: 11 06 1980
Description: Magda Herzberger stands in front of a map of the United States holding a wooden plaque carved with a Star of David and the inscription, "In Gratitude to Ma...
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Guinea Pig

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Randall school student John Drake, wearing a Boy Scout uniform, holding his classroom's newborn guinea pig named "Mix-Up, Jr."
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Marquette School

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Judy Russell is pointing to the queen bee in the colony at the Marquette School sixth grade classroom; she's discovered that all activity centers about the...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Warren Oakes, (left) is churning the cream wi...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Billy Husebo is eating a cracker spread with ...
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Young Students Holding Books

Date: 1939
Description: Two young students holding books in their kindergarten classroom next to a piano. The young girl is posed seated on a piano bench and holding an open book....
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Two Students Near Fireplace

Date: 1939
Description: A portrait of two young students, a boy and a girl, standing next to each other and holding hands near the fireplace in their kindergarten classroom. The f...
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Gary MacDonald and Roger Grant

Date: 1990
Description: Gary MacDonald (left) and Roger Grant (right), photography professors at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, posing alongside a camera.
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Arlene English New Teacher at Randall School

Date: 09 08 1952
Description: Miss Arlene English, new first grade teacher at Randall School, writes her name on the blackboard on the opening day of school.
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Portrait of two new first grade teachers at Nakoma School, Glynn Calkins and Mrs. James F. Pressentin.
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 05 14 1956
Description: Catharine McClosky, first, second and third grade teacher at the Waubesa School near McFarland, standing in her classroom. She is also a member of the Phil...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 461-472

Date: 
Description: Something less than the half of everything
is the better, the partner, the woman waiting

What counselor, over his shoulder, can count the ways
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Girl with Origami Peace Crane

Date: 09 20 1989
Description: Melodie Albritton holds up an origami crane she folded at St. Nicholas School.
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Girl with Origami Peace Crane

Date: 09 20 1989
Description: Janine Dagons resting her chin on a table with an origami peace crane sitting in front of her.

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