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Classroom

Date: 10 06 1971
Description: Early childhood classroom in which two volunteer teachers are instructing children.
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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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"No-hitters"

Date: 05 16 1989
Description: Sixth grade class members show off their trophy for being "no-hitters." The plaque reads, "Hitting always hurts."
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Emerson School Physical Examinations

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Two women from the Health and Physical Education Department examining the posture and feet of Emerson School girls dressed in gym uniforms.
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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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Train of Tomorrow

Date: 05 03 1948
Description: Youngsters from the Lakewood and Waunakee grade schools shown with the "Train of Tomorrow" at the North Western depot. The train was built for General Moto...
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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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Camp Perry Classroom

Date: 1942
Description: A group of soldiers gather in a large classroom at Camp Perry for a class on crawler tractors. A blackboard and various military vehicles are in the backgr...
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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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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Grant County School Contest Winners

Date: 05 01 1914
Description: Unidentified children wearing ribbons on the lapels or collars pose on the lawn outside a brick building. Some of the children wear banners that say "Spell...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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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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