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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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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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Graduates in Caps and Gowns

Date: 06 01 1957
Description: Graduates in caps and gowns attend the graduation ceremony.
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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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Vocational Students Mail Christmas Seals

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: A group of Madison vocational school students preparing Christmas Seals for distribution by the Madison Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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Boating at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 11 14 1931
Description: University of Wisconsin coeds sitting in a boat surrounded by sand bags in front of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent women's dormitory. I...
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Longfellow School Disabled Students

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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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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Central High School Debate

Date: 03 20 1929
Description: Central High School debate, Central vs. Beloit.
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Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: A Civil Rights workshop in session at Highlander School showing Myles Horton, Mikii Marlowe, Essau Jenkins, Septima Clark and Rosa Parks in attendance.
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Cherokee Heights School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: One chaperon and two students drinking sodas at a Cherokee Heights School Dance.
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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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Ruby Kubota

Date: 05 17 1944
Description: Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ...
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Memorial Union Nightclub

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: A Caribbean atmosphere is stressed at the Campacabana Club at the Memorial Union. Left to right: Pvt. Wheeler Ryall, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Romele Redd...
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Elizabeth Waters Hall Students Tea Committee

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three University of Wisconsin coeds of Elizabeth Waters Hall dormitory who have arranged for a tea and open house for facility members and friends. Standin...
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Students with Clothing for Clothing Drive Collection

Date: 05 01 1945
Description: Eleven students from Highlands-Mendota holding clothes collected for the Madison and Dane County clothing drive. Pictured are room captains, first row left...
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All-Campus Rally on the Palestine Question

Date: 11 14 1945
Description: Professor Walter Agard addressing an all-campus rally on the Palestine question held at the Memorial Union. Seated left to right: Elaine Sermopskie, Topeka...
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Chadbourne Hall 75th Anniversary Celebration

Date: 10 18 1956
Description: Five University of Wisconsin coeds dressed in 1871 period costumes with Professor Harry F. Harlow in his classroom. Pictured left to right: Marilyn Moevs, ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...

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