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Lincoln Terrace

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view of Bascom Hall Terrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Lincoln Monument is near the front entrance.
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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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East High School Marching Band

Date: 03 10 1930
Description: East High School marching band wearing uniforms, marching in formation in a field.
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Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
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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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Thomas Ridge

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Description: People playing golf on Thomas Ridge at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wrigh...
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Football Game at Hillside Home School

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Description: A football game being played near Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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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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University of Wisconsin Hoofers Club Winter Carnival

Date: 02 14 1948
Description: Ice carving of the Olympic rings at the University of Wisconsin Hoofers Club Winter Carnival, with Bascom Hall and the Lincoln Monument in the background. ...
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Two University of Wisconsin Hoofers' Equestriennes

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Two University of Wisconsin Hoofers' Club members who will ride in the annual horse show are shown sitting on a fence holding the reins of their horses. Pi...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Review

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin ROTC cadets pass in review before the Military Ball Queen, Mary Schneiders, San Diego, California, her court, and ROTC officers...
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Everybody Out For Recreation

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Description: A group of students taking a break to play softball at Highlander Folk School.
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University of Wisconsin Orientation Week Activities

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: Donn Frey, Barbara Becker, and Claire Engelhardt, three freshmen students on a campus tour led by Jack Padgham, upperclassman and sub-chairman of orientati...
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Chi Phi Serenaders

Date: 11 22 1948
Description: Forty fraternity men of Chi Phi serenade outside the sorority house of Alpha Phi.
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West High School Hockey Team

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Group portrait of the undefeated West High School hockey team in uniform with hockey sticks posing on the ice at a rink outdoors.
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Hoofers' Horse Show

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: Jeanne Olson of 13 South Franklin Street, chairman of the grounds committee for the Hoofers' horse show, stands with her horse, "Her Highness".
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Hoofers' Horse Show

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: Four participants of the Hoofers' horse show perching on a white rail fence. Left to right: Joyce Schauf, Rock Falls; Lorna Zachmen, Whitefish Bay; Rita Bu...
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WIAA State Prep Track Meet

Date: 05 27 1950
Description: Portrait of Leo Schlilcht of East High School on the track field. Schlilcht was the winner of the Class A discus throw in the WIAA State Prep track meet.
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Wisconsin Hoofers Horse Show

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Four University of Wisconsin students who will participate in the horse show sponsored by the Wisconsin Hoofers. Left to right are Joan Adler, Unionville, ...
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Classmates Picking Weeds

Date: 02 1919
Description: A group of children and adults from Elm Grove school learning to identify and pick weeds along the side of a dirt road.

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