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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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The Answer Machine

Date: 11 13 1963
Description: A question is fed into a "computer" created by the mathematics club at John Marshall Junior High School. This was a project in observance of American Educa...
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Longfellow School Third and Fourth Graders

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of Beth Knope, winner of the 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, holding her trophy and standing between her teacher Floy Kendrick, on the left, and h...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of eight finalists in the Badger Spelling Bee. First row, l to r: Kay Krogem, Jefferson, 8th place; Champion Beth Knope, Madison; Beverly H...
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Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
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Children Testing Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on fro...
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Susan Hamre, Spelling Champion

Date: 03 30 1954
Description: Portrait of Susan Hamre, Lowell School, one of nine individual Madison school spelling bee champions. The other students included Joyce Hoffman, St. Bernar...
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Theresa Public School

Date: 02 14 1978
Description: "Principal Delores Justman and her first and second grade class — Theresa Public School."
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Valentine's Day Party

Date: 02 14 1978
Description: "Valentine's Day party in Theresa Public School gymnasium."
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Edgewood High School Crusader Staff

Date: 05 18 1955
Description: Edgewood High School's "Crusader" annual co-editors and business managers celebrate the finish of their work on the annual. They include, from left: Mike D...
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Freedom School Reenactment of a Slave Revolt

Date: 1964
Description: Three people stand outdoors near a truck acting out a group improvisation of a slave revolt. They were attending Freedom School during Freedom Summer at Pa...
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9th Annual Wisconsin Students' Association Student Leadership Conference

Date: 09 25 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin faculty members and students meet at the YMCA Camp Wakanda for the 9th annual Wisconsin Students' Association (WSA) student leaders...
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Advance Registration for UW Freshmen

Date: 07 23 1959
Description: Joy Justesen of Sun Prairie poses for an identification photo as she participates in the advance registration process for University of Wisconsin freshmen.
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Advance Registration for UW Freshmen

Date: 07 29 1959
Description: Joy Justesen of Sun Prairie, at right, fills in a registration form as she participates in the advance registration process for University of Wisconsin fre...
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We Saw You at Drama Institute

Date: 11 12 1959
Description: Alice Peet, assistant technical director of the Wisconsin Union Theater, talks with Madison West High School pupils attending the Drama Institute. They are...
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Elliott Zimmerman Heads Madison Elementary Junior Red Cross Council

Date: 06 1953
Description: New officers of the Madison elementary Junior Red Cross Council are elected by representatives of 23 Madison elementary school Junior Red Cross councils. S...
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Spelling Bee Championship in Iowa County

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: The last five spellers left in the Iowa county championship spelling bee all look a bit worried as they wait for the final rounds of the bee, held in the D...
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Madison Spelling Bee Finalists

Date: 04 30 1959
Description: Thirty-three finalists compete at the Central High School auditorium in the annual Madison City Spelling Bee. One of the finalists is Susan Nelson, a 6th g...

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