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Rural School Health Parade and Festival

Date: 05 1928
Description: School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m...
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 05 27 1949
Description: Pat Rohr, 16 North Bassett Street, standing next to her salt and pepper shaker collection at the Washington School Hobby Show. Stan Fix, holding a model ai...
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Randall School Children Mail a Package

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Four Randall School third grade students mail a package containing a scrapbook of stories, poems, art work and photos. It will go to a third grade class in...
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"Let's Go North For A South Victory"

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ...
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Edgewood College Freshman Prom

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Two couples in formal dress stand behind a punch bowl on a table labeled 'Punch Island' with potted palms to their left and right. Left to right, they are:...
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Cook County School Festival

Date: 06 1916
Description: A group of children and adults, some holding American flags and Cook County banners, standing in a field to watch events at the Cook County School Festival...
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Flag Drill at Illinois School Festival

Date: 06 1916
Description: A group of girls performing a flag drill during a School Festival as a crowd of adults and children look on. Three boys are standing on the left playing mu...
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Girls Around the Maypole with Flowers

Date: 1913
Description: Group of girls holding fabricated flowers around a maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. A large group of fellow students and teachers look...
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Group of Children at School March

Date: 1913
Description: Spectators on bleachers are watching students participating in a "Grand March" at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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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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Madison High School Party Code

Date: 11 09 1954
Description: Marie Frost advising her daughter, Mary, as to the appropriate dress for a party, following the "Madison High School Party Code."
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New UW Students Reception

Date: 09 16 1956
Description: Wanda Wordell, of Brillion (center) starts her career as a freshman co-ed as she registers at a reception for incoming freshmen held in the Memorial Union....
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Students Outside the Historymobile II

Date: 03 22 1971
Description: Students and teachers lined up outside Historymobile II, probably parked at Jefferson Sr. High School. The featured exhibit was People and Pollution. 4th a...
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Walworth County Girl Wins State Spelling Bee

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: Carol Fellows, a 14-year-old girl from Genoa City, is shown at the moment she was declared Badger State Spelling Bee champion. She outspelled 62 other city...
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Eight Top Spellers in the State

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: Group portrait of the eight finalists in the 1958 Badger State Spelling Bee. All of them received prizes. Shown, left to right, are: Eddie Thompson, Elroy,...
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Bicentennial Dance

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Children at the Honey Creek State Graded School, District No. 1, commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington with a dance performed...
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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Two young people are examining a wall chart depicting traffic lanes, cross walks, and intersections. There are movable adhesive rectangles representing car...
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Edgewood High School Homecoming Court of Honor

Date: 10 27 1964
Description: Pictured are the ten members of the Edgewood High School Homecoming court of honor. From left to right, the young people are Julie McGivern, Jerome Fahey, ...

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