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New Drivers Class at West High School

Date: 06 06 1939
Description: Group of students in the new drivers class stand in front of West High School with a new automobile and a scale model of Madison's streets. Includes five a...
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University Student Bathers

Date: 07 29 1935
Description: Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota.
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Honey Queen with University of Wisconsin-Madison Crew

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Description: Wisconsin Honey Queen Deanna Kocker standing next to the crew team, who have jars of honey, at their first outing of the year on Lake Mendota, during Honey...
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Souvenirs from Norway

Date: 11 1947
Description: Left to right, Dorothy Kobs, Wisconsin High School student, James McDonald, Central High School student, and Amelia Brueckner, West High School student, lo...
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Train of Tomorrow

Date: 05 03 1948
Description: Youngsters from the Lakewood and Waunakee grade schools shown with the "Train of Tomorrow" at the North Western depot. The train was built for General Moto...
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Winners of the Firemen's Poster Contest

Date: 11 09 1948
Description: Group portrait of the winners of the Madison Fire Fighters union poster contest, held in conjunction with the annual Firemen's ball. Left to right in the f...
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Lowell School Sixth Graders at Madison Airport

Date: 10 20 1949
Description: A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor...
Postcard

Exercise at a Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a large group of school children exercising in the schoolyard. Boys and girls are on separate sides of the yard. All are the students are ...
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High School Band Plays in Street

Date: 1942
Description: The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The...
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Playing in the Classroom

Date: 1939
Description: A group of students playing in their kindergarten classroom with a large train model.
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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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Boys Grain Judging Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of boys from the Boys Grain Judging Club at Walkenhorst School sitting around a table outdoors to look at cobs of corn. A man, wearing eyeglasses, ...
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Korean Student Uprising

Date: 04 1960
Description: The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa...
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Escalation of the Korean Crisis

Date: 04 1960
Description: In April 1960 a student uprising created a crisis within the South Korean government and the army was called out to keep the peace. Ultimately President Sy...
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West High School Girls' Club Christmas Activities

Date: 12 08 1954
Description: Four girls holding toys are standing behind a large cut-out Christmas sleigh at West High School. They are, from left: Betty Baird, Dagny Quisling, Mary Sn...
Manuscript

Griggs Album: Kindergarten Goes to Vilas Park

Date: 06 1925
Description: Children posing in the back of an open truck wagon in front of the Neighborhood House Infant Welfare Clinic. The wagon is marked "Frautschi". This is the f...
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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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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Mary Emmerich learning to release and lift an auto's hood under the direction of West High basketball coach and driving instructor, Don Page.
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Madison Schools Safety Patrol Trip to Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Madison Schools students chosen as Safety Patrol members by their schools board the train to Washington, D.C. to attend the National Assembly of School Saf...

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