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Emerson School Hearing Test

Date: 02 11 1935
Description: Boys at Emerson School are listening intently to earphones and writing on notebooks during a hearing test.
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Emerson School Classroom

Date: 10 01 1931
Description: Emerson School children and teacher listen to a radio broadcast from a radio set up in front of the blackboard in the classroom at 2421 East Johnson Street...
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Around-the-world Telephone Call

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co...
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Students Publishing High School Newspaper

Date: 10 24 1955
Description: Central High School students, Nancee Meyers, Jean Loy, and Colenthia Hill working on an edition of the school newspaper, "Madison Mirror."
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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 25 1953
Description: An adult stands beside a Badger Spelling Bee contestant at a podium behind a WIBA microphone.
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Student nurses in Madison take part in a state-wide aid project at various hospitals and welfare centers during Student Nurse Week. Susan Miller of Methodi...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
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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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Theta Sigma Alumnae Host High School Journalism Day for Girls

Date: 10 31 1959
Description: Three members of East High School newspaper's staff, the Tower Times, pose near a typewriter. They are Roberta Ruggles, Diane Stitgen and Karen Ande...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Prom queen candidate Jean Riley of Green Bay (a.k.a. "Calamity Jean") appearing with two "bashful cowhands," who are singing on her behalf at the rally in ...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 31 1959
Description: Demonstrating the Navy Research laboratory's electronic computer to a high school student is, seated, experimental physicist, Dr. Anneke Levelt. Dr. Levelt...
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A Costume Carnival

Date: 04 06 1989
Description: A boy in a costume is posing with his arms crossed wih his hands on his knees. Caption reads: "A costume carnival Pupils at Maple Dale Elementary S...

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