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Governor Julius P. Heil Campaigning to Teenagers

Date: 10 1942
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ...
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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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Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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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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"The Hare and the Hedgehog"

Date: 12 11 1934
Description: Longfellow School children on stage perform a scene from the folk play "The Hare and the Hedgehog." Longfellow School is located in the Greenbush neighborh...
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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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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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Dancers Frolic Among the Trees

Date: 1923
Description: University of Wisconsin physical education interpretive dance students perform out of doors in a grassy meadow.
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Children at Play in Rural Setting

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Description: Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca...
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School Children Playing "Baby in the Hole"

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees.
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Children Saluting the Flag

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Summers' pupils saluting as an American flag is raised outside Pleasant View School. The original caption reads: "Loyal U.S. citizens in the making."
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School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
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Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
Description: Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo...
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School Girls in Running Race

Date: 06 1916
Description: Six girls in a running race at the School Festival in Palos Park.
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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A White Glove Event

Date: 11 04 1956
Description: Sophomores at Alverno College greet incoming freshmen with an annual tea party.
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Home Economics Class in a Social Moment

Date: 1929
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics students have a tea party.
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"Moonlight Formal" at Tripp Commons

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: Couples enjoy the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons, University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. They are in formal dress with some of the men in military un...
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Romantic Night at the "Moonlight Formal"

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: A formally dressed young woman and her beau in his U.S. Army uniform sit at a table and drink Coca-Cola at the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons at the M...

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