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Lantern Parade

Date: 07 24 1935
Description: Children, from Hawthorne School Annex, wearing Mardi Gras style heads, are marching in the Lantern Parade, with the First Evangelical Church in the backgro...
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Glennwood Road School

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Description: A view of the exterior of the Glennwood Road School in Brooklyn, with children playing baseball outside.
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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Headstand

Date: 1931
Description: A girl wearing bloomers and long stockings performs a headstand as other girls look on. One of the bystanders is also wearing athletic clothes under her co...
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Alvin Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Alvin Elmer, age 15, holds a model airplane and coal truck that he made. His teacher at Farmer's Grove School wrote on the reverse of the photograph, "This...
Drawing

Andy Over the Schoolhouse

Date: 1945
Description: Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. Seven children play "Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse," a game in which they throw a ball over...
Drawing

Ice Skating at Dunham School

Date: 1945
Description: A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with s...
Photograph

Richard Northey

Date: 1932
Description: Richard Northey, 11, a student at the Northey School, poses on a pony. There is a barn in the background. On the reverse of the photograph is written "He h...
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Edna Leonard

Date: 1932
Description: Edna Leonard, a student at Northey School, poses on a horse on the Fred Leonard farm. There is an automobile and other horses in the background, as well as...
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Rhythm Band

Date: 05 1931
Description: Members of the rhythm bands from the Woods and Fontana state graded schools pose outdoors holding their instruments. The children in the front row and on t...
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Defending the Igloo

Date: 1932
Description: Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ...
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We Saw You . . . Watching Dairy Caravan

Date: 02 01 1955
Description: School children from the Madison area are among the first visitors at the opening of the $100,000 Dairy Caravan at the State Capitol. Students from Waunake...
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Group of Boys on School Steps

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Description: Group portrait of boys posing sitting and standing on a stairway in front of a brick building, which is identified as the school building built in 1872.

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