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Fishing near the State Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Group of young boys and two adult men fishing near the Water Works of the State Industrial School for Boys.
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Fencing Demonstration

Date: 02 27 1989
Description: Members of the foils teams of Catholic Memorial High School give a fencing demonstration to a class of elementary school students.
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Emerson School Classroom

Date: 10 01 1931
Description: Emerson School children and teacher listen to a radio broadcast from a radio set up in front of the blackboard in the classroom at 2421 East Johnson Street...
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Recess at a One-Room School

Date: 09 1939
Description: Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi...
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People Playing Golf

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Description: People playing golf outside of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Alfalfa for the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1951
Description: Irving Gerhardt, instructor of Vocational Agriculture, and Duane Lehr, Future Farmers of America member and agriculture student from Madison East High Scho...
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Kehl Dance Class

Date: 1907
Description: Dance class in the ballroom at the Kehl School of Dance, Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Kehl stands at the lower right, while a row of mothers watch from b...
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Leona Sonderegger combs the hair of her son, John Sonderegger, prior to a Shorewood School dancing class.
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 10 21 1952
Description: Jack G. Jefferds teaches basic dance steps to Marion Amlie and David Johnson at a Shorewood School dancing class.
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Students at Aztalan State Park

Date: 06 1973
Description: Fifth-graders from Mayville Public School celebrate the end of the school year by running down the earthen mounds at Aztalan State Park. Teachers on the tr...
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YMCA Swim Class

Date: 08 02 1945
Description: High School girls at a swim class held at the YMCA.
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Wisconsin-Illinois Football Game

Date: 10 20 1945
Description: Man in a wheelchair on the sidelines of the Wisconsin-Illinois football game at Camp Randall Stadium. He is possibly Robert Butts, the founder of the annua...
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Estes School Farm Safety Program

Date: 03 28 1946
Description: Estes School Farm Safety Program held at the Estes School on Cottage Grove Road. People in the audience with students' farm safety projects displayed on th...
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Cottage Grove Graded School Style Show

Date: 04 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of seven females and one young girl in formals and street dresses from the Emporium Department Store that they modeled in the Cottage Grove ...
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WHA Radio Studio Program

Date: 04 27 1946
Description: Wisconsin School of the Air program, featuring Fanny Steve at the piano leading a group of children in a rhythm game. Her popular show, "Rhythm and Games" ...
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Fanny (Mrs. William) Steve with Children

Date: 03 28 1947
Description: Fanny (Mrs. William) Steve, at the piano, and children playing instruments in WHA radio studio. Mrs. Steve was part of the program staff of the School of t...
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Shorewood Hills Kindergarten Class

Date: 05 02 1947
Description: Thirteen students of the Shorewood Hills kindergarten class with their teacher posed in front of a train, constructed of paper and a large barrel, in the s...
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First Train Ride Provided by Fun Fund

Date: 12 08 1948
Description: Roundy's Fun Fund and the Milwaukee Road provided forty children from the remedial department of the Madison public schools with their first train ride to ...
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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Sara Reznichek watching three Marquette school fourth graders practice for their puppet show "Heidi" during the school's family fun night. The students, le...
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Teacher Reading to School Children

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Description: A school teacher reads to elementary school children, who are sitting on the floor in a large, open classroom.

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