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Dudgeon School Classroom

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: An Indian unit being developed in the 2B classroom at Dudgeon School. A teepee is standing in front of the class.
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Dance Couple in Folk Costume

Date: 10 28 1938
Description: Portrait of a male and a female dancer in folk costume, striking a pose. Taken for Hazel Conlon School of Dance.
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Regina Groves at Her Desk

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Regina Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart), sitting at her desk, operating an interdepartment communication system at the Groves School for Secretaries. Behind her...
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Secretary Using Telephone

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro...
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Regina E. Groves

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Regina E. Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart) talking to a man sitting across the table/desk from her at the Groves School for Secretaries, located at 502 State St...
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Boy's Quartet, Franklin School

Date: 06 25 1935
Description: Group portrait of boy's vocal quartet at Franklin School, Lakeside Street.
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Two Xylophonists at Emerson School

Date: 02 27 1935
Description: Two xylophonists playing at Emerson School Gymnasium.
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Nakoma School Folk Dancing Group

Date: 01 31 1935
Description: Nakoma School girls folk dance class. There are six "couples" in a row in ethnic costumes, with each "boy" on their knee holding a girl's hand.
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Nakoma School Folk Dancing Group

Date: 01 31 1935
Description: Nakoma School girls folk dance class, five "couples" dressed in ethnic costumes dancing with hands interlocked. Circle Dance.
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Franklin School Eighth Grade Banquet

Date: 06 13 1934
Description: Five women and group of eighth grade students sitting around banquet tables at the Franklin School Mothers Club eighth grade banquet in the school gymnasiu...
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Kiddie Camp Children

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n...
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Children Making Furniture

Date: 10 18 1933
Description: Large group of children making orange crate furniture at Hawthorne School, 216 Division Street. Activities include sawing and hammering.
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Franklin School P.T.A. Theatrical Group

Date: 06 01 1933
Description: Franklin School P.T.A. theatrical group in costume on stage.
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Lifebuoy Soap Dancers, Wheeler School of Dance

Date: 05 25 1933
Description: Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne He...
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Draper School Project

Date: 05 04 1933
Description: Draper School fourth grade project, showing a girl dressed in a Norwegian costume in a Norwegian scene.
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Mrs. Buehler and Music Teachers

Date: 04 30 1933
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Buehler sitting at a piano surrounded by eleven women teachers of the Extension Division of the Wisconsin School of Music, 202 W. Gilman Str...
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Lowell School Women's Soccer Baseball Team

Date: 03 28 1933
Description: Group portrait of Lowell school women's championship soccer baseball team in uniform.
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Man Weaving at a Loom

Date: 12 02 1932
Description: Man weaving at Reed Manufacturing loom, in the Vocational School crafts class at Brayton School, 301 E. Washington Avenue.
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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Duncan Beauty School

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Interior of the Duncan Academy of Hair and Beauty Culture School, located at 23 South Pinckney Street. Students are working with customers in hair styling ...

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