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Emerson School Eye Testing

Date: 02 11 1935
Description: Woman pointing at chart and one child showing which way the E is pointing for Emerson School eye examinations. A piano is in the background.
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Randall School Classroom

Date: 10 29 1931
Description: Randall school first grade classroom with students sitting in a circle. The teacher is also sitting in the circle. Caption reads: "A progressive first grad...
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Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
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Obey's Educational Tour

Date: 04 1990
Description: Congressman David R. Obey observes the "Charlie Program" in action at an elementary school in his district. Obey was a strong supporter of education and ed...
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
Photograph

Hard-Time Party

Date: 1932
Description: Pupils of the Northey School, District No. 7, pose with their parents at a Halloween "Hard-time" party at the school. Many in the group wear ragged or outd...
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Kindergarten Teacher Comforts New Student

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Florence Helmeid, Kindergarten teacher at Hoyt School comforts an unidentified boy during the first day of class.
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Garfield School Students

Date: 1953
Description: Outdoor group portrait of first through eighth grade students. Most of the students hold books. One holds a chalk board reading Garfield [School], Racine C...
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Garfield School Students

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the first through eighth grade students of Garfield School.
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Garfield School Students

Date: 02 06 1959
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth graders from Garfield School with their teacher Grace Sorenson.
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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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Raymond Center School Students

Date: 12 02 1955
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth grade students at Raymond Center School with their teacher, Gloria Bicha. One boy wears a Davy Crockett shirt.
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Raymond School Students

Date: 11 30 1961
Description: Group portrait of seventh and eighth grade students from Raymond School with their teacher, Mr. Philbrick.
Print

School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
Photograph

Lester J. Kornely with Migrant Children at Summer School

Date: 1960
Description: Caption on back: "Lester J. Kornely, teacher of the summer school for migrant children, poses with some of the pupils enrolled from the three migrant camps...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
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Story Time

Date: 1976
Description: A group of children is seated on the floor and in chairs, listening to a teacher reading during story time. One boy is lying on the floor. A nun is standin...

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