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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Food Drive for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 18 1965
Description: Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
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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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University of Wisconsin Women's Association

Date: 03 26 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self Government style show committee members Dorothy Proudfoot, Wilmette, Illinois, chairman of decorations, Margaret Pesut...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: Annette Wellers, Whitewater, hurrying off to class while Mildred Benson, Stoughton, arrives with groceries at the front door of the University of Wisconsin...
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Young Citizenship Group Sewing

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Description: Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School.
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Pep Up with Wisconsin Kraut

Date: 1939
Description: University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U...
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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl...
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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teachers Marguerite Drew and Lois Griskavich. Pictured ...
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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: The Randall Elementary School kindergarten class pose for a seated portrait after making applesauce under the supervision of their teachers, Marguerite Dre...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Karen Rockney (left) is washing the butter as...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Sally Myers, (left) is stirring the butter wh...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Left to right, spreading butter on crackers, ...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Billy Husebo is eating a cracker spread with ...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics High School Day

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Home Economics students at the University of Wisconsin served rolls and hot chocolate to more than 800 high school students from 57 schools who attended th...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics High School Day

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Five girls from Edgewood High School, in Madison, are looking at a display of table settings. Loeft to right are Catherine Burmeister, Mary Boltz, Yvonne ...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics High School Day

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Five girls from Rio High School are studying an exhibit of dressmaking and dress design. Left to right are Frances Traut, Donna Mae Hebel, Jeanette Wruck,...
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Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...

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