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AAA Driver's Education Class and Instructor

Date: 10 27 1938
Description: AAA driver's training instructor with group of students, posing with dual control driver's education car, in front of Madison East High School.
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1916
Description: Large group of students and teachers working in the Tyler School Gardens. The director of the school (or gardens?) was E.M. Bardwell.
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St. Patrick's Church Confirmation Group

Date: 06 13 1943
Description: St. Patrick's Catholic Church Confirmation class and priest on the steps of St. Patrick's Churck at 410 East Main Street.
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AAA Driver Training Car

Date: 10 27 1938
Description: AAA dual-control training car parked at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. Several students are in the car, a Pontiac, with a man standing next...
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Cherokee School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Male teacher and a student bowing to one another at the beginning of a dance at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
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High School Couples at Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Two high school couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi sorority dance at the Loraine Hotel. Left to right: Georgianna Browne, Emerson Black, Dan Benk...
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Couples at High School Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Three couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi high school sorority dance at the Hotel Loraine. Standing left to right: Mert Mellor, Virginia Welke, Si...
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Assembling educational materials for servicemen-students all over the world are the employees of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI), headquar...
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Hosiery Workers Skit at Highlander

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Description: Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School.
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First Attempt to Enter Central High School by the Little Rock Nine

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove...
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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Sharon Lutz and her father square dancing at the Marquette school family fun night.
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West Junior High School Spelling Finalists

Date: 04 04 1950
Description: Roger E. Trafford, principal at West junior high school, standing in an auditorium with his students who won the first four places in the school spelling b...
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West High Cross Country Banquet

Date: 11 22 1950
Description: Group portrait of adult organizers and speakers for the banquet to honor West High School cross country runners. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Harry (Fred...
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Clarion State Normal School

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Description: Interior of a library at Clarion State Normal School, established in 1873. Men and women read at tables and choose books from shelves.
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of women wearing uniforms of knee-length skirts and dark tights taking to the field to play a game of field hockey at Hampton Institute. Spec...
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Madison Art Foundation

Date: 08 11 1953
Description: Portrait of supporters of the recently incorporated Madison Art Foundation. Philip Falk (left), superintendent of Madison schools, shows a piece of artwork...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Ruth Allcott (center) is shown with new art teachers, James MacLeahlan and Irene Harff.
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University of Wisconsin Homecoming Button Sale

Date: 10 19 1953
Description: University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred is presented with the first Homecoming button by University yearbook-designated 1953 Badger Beauty, Marge Hesse...
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Edgewood College Leadership School

Date: 09 10 1954
Description: Reverend Jerome Mersberger (left) and Sister Mary Nona, O.P. (right) meet with Edgewood College students during a three-day leadership school for class off...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist Hospital student nurse Sandra Sheller writes a letter home for patient Ray Zimmerman from Murphysboro, Illinois. She is taking part in the state-...

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