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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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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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University of Wisconsin Students with Senator Mueller

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: University of Wisconsin students representing the U.W. Student Budget Committee present a petition to Senator Otto Mueller at the Wisconsin State Capitol. ...
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University Student Bathers

Date: 07 29 1935
Description: Standing on the Alpha Chi Omega sorority pier, Willard Grasser and Robert Estes show what is and is not permitted with regard to men's bathing suits. "The ...
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Rural School Health Parade and Festival

Date: 05 1928
Description: School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m...
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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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Female Graduation

Date: 06 03 1939
Description: Elevated view of female graduation procession.
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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Linguistic Exhibit

Date: 09 27 1934
Description: University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti...
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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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The Answer Machine

Date: 11 13 1963
Description: A question is fed into a "computer" created by the mathematics club at John Marshall Junior High School. This was a project in observance of American Educa...
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Halloween

Date: 11 01 1963
Description: A line of elementary students dressed up in Halloween costumes at school. Women are standing and sitting in the background.
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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Dancers Frolic Among the Trees

Date: 1923
Description: University of Wisconsin physical education interpretive dance students perform out of doors in a grassy meadow.
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Children at Play in Rural Setting

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Description: Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca...
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School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1916
Description: Large group of students and teachers working in the Tyler School Gardens. The director of the school (or gardens?) was E.M. Bardwell.
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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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Home Economics Class in a Social Moment

Date: 1929
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics students have a tea party.

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