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Class on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Date: 12 06 1967
Description: Instructor teaching the harmful effects of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs.
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Little Prairie School

Date: 04 29 1955
Description: Group portrait of students, Little Prairie School, District #2, taken outside in front of school building, including teacher Miss Vera Frederickson.
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Students listening to Rev. Claude Williams teaching "Religion in Contemporary Society." The blackboard says "Gospel of the Kingdom: The Gospel to the Poor,...
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Kansas State Agricultural College Students Working

Date: 01 1921
Description: Three groups of male students working on three different tractors outdoors, including a Titan 10-20, while two men (professors?) look on at the Kansas Stat...
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Teacher and Students in Classroom

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: A male teacher and students at their desks in a classroom working on a project involving growing plants. Taken for the Wisconsin Agriculturist.
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Wisconsin Centennial Celebration

Date: 02 05 1948
Description: Wisconsin Centennial Celebration by Mazomanie fifth and sixth grade classes with P.F. Stickney, age 80, on the right. The pupils are dressed in the costume...
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"Tractorette" School

Date: 1942
Description: A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester...
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Diesel School

Date: 1937
Description: George Perikoff instructs a group of men at International Harvester's diesel school.
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District 2 Class Picture

Date: 1892
Description: Group of schoolchildren posed sitting and standing on a fallen tree trunk. They are dressed in their finest clothes for a school photograph. One of the boy...
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Franklin School Fourth Grade Class

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: The twenty-four members of the Franklin School fourth grade class with their teacher, Mrs. Marguerite Gilbert. The class won the school spelling championsh...
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School Bus at Oldest School House

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: Children disembark from an International Model C-30 school bus parked in front of the "oldest [frame] school house" in America. The bus was one of seven ow...
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Nichols School Fourth Graders Visit Classmate in Hospital

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Fourth graders at Nichols School, Monona, visit their classmate, Burt Fernstrom of 5124 Winnequah Road, who is a patient at St. Mary's Hospital. Standing l...
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Stockholm Village School

Date: 1905
Description: Students and teachers standing outside two-story brick Public School building.
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Lowell School First Graders

Date: 10 11 1951
Description: A "lion" is being put through its paces by his "trainer" before a crowd of "circus fans" at Lowell School, as first grade students perform at a dress rehea...
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Students Making Stenciled Charts

Date: 02 1916
Description: Young students making stenciled charts with teacher J.W. Page at the Morton Grove School. Original caption reads: "Another view of a school making junior c...
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Students Sitting at Desks

Date: 1919
Description: View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the r...
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Schoolchildren Boarding Bus

Date: 1935
Description: Schoolchildren boarding an International C-30 school bus. Original caption reads: "One of six Model C-30 school buses with all-steel bodies, owned by St. J...
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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High School

Date: 1882
Description: Teachers and students pose in front of the public school.
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Slinger Grade School

Date: 05 15 1902
Description: Students of the Slinger Grade School, pictured with their teachers, Miss Margaret O'Connell who taught grades one through five, and Mr. H.T. White who taug...

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