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Kehl Dance Class

Date: 1907
Description: Dance class in the ballroom at the Kehl School of Dance, Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Kehl stands at the lower right, while a row of mothers watch from b...
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Highlander Students Dining

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Description: A group of Highlander Folk School students on an outing, eating dinner at a restaurant.
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Community Leadership Workshop

Date: 08 1955
Description: A community leadership workshop session, August-September, at Highlander Folk School. Elizabeth Brinkman, Germany, in background in a flower dress; obscure...
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Prom Court

Date: 07 1965
Description: Curtis and his friend Pete Sandberg escort Queen of the prom, Marcy Smith and her friend (? Cole), alternate queen.
Poster

Earth Week

Date: 03 13 1971
Description: Poster advertising Earth Week, held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from April 20-25. The poster calls for volunteers to "help us with our fe...
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May Day at Hampton Institute

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Description: View of children swinging around maypoles on May Day at Hampton Institute, established 1868. Campus buildings are in the background.
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May Day at Wilson College

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Description: Students kneel in the grass and wave banners during a May Day ceremony at Wilson College while faculty and students gather on the lawn to watch. The colleg...
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May Day at Wilson College

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Description: A woman on horseback leads a group of women carrying banners down a road at Wilson College as a crowd follows. A school building is in the background.
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Thanksgiving Feast

Date: 11 26 1930
Description: Students and teacher seated at a long table loaded with food and drinks for a Thanksgiving meal. There are music and English lessons behind them on the cha...
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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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Washington's Birthday

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Two students at the Honey Creek School, District No. 1, pose as if dancing a minuet outside of the school building. The boy and girl are dressed in Eightee...
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Jean Emily Dyer Reese

Date: 1944
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Jean Emily Dyer (Reese) in her prom dress with a corsage. She is posed on stone steps with the train of her gown spread out...
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Laura Foster in Prom Dress

Date: 05 1959
Description: Laura Foster (b. 1941) standing in the foyer of her house dressed for her senior prom at Rockford East High School. The sleeveless, knee-length dress is wh...

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