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Teenagers Listening to WVLR at the Eagle's Nest

Date: 1965
Description: Teenagers studying and playing pool at the Eagle's Nest, a popular teen hangout in downtown Sauk-Prairie. The Eagle's Nest had a juke-box, but the WVLR (Wi...
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Electric Hair

Date: 01 10 1966
Description: Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch...
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Children Poster Display

Date: 05 19 1969
Description: Four children hold up their winning posters for a competition in a class.
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School Project

Date: 04 22 1967
Description: Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording.
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Kindergarten Astronauts

Date: 10 11 1968
Description: Kindergarten students wear space helmets they made from buckets as part of a class project designed to interest them in current events. A cardboard "Apollo...
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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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Science Project

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: Two young boys work on a science project in a lab room.
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Food Drive for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 18 1965
Description: Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
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Boys Wearing Funny Hats

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Three boys stand at the front of their classroom and read aloud the story, "The Funny Hats" while wearing funny hats.
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Paper Plate Imposters

Date: 11 10 1966
Description: First grade students look at likenesses of themselves seated at their desks. They created these by drawing their faces on paper plates, attaching them to ...
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Pie in the Face

Date: 12 10 1968
Description: Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni...
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Frosty House

Date: 12 18 1963
Description: A craft class member of Milwaukee public school system's recreation department frosting a gingerbread cookie house at the Grant Street social center.
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Students with a Skeleton

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: Three freshman students inspect a skeleton at the Marquette University medical school.
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Students at the Memorial Union Terrace

Date: 05 23 1968
Description: The Memorial Union Terrace has long been a favorite study location. Here students study and relax during final exams.
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Highlander Student Workshop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A...
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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.
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Peggy Algren and Henry Lawrence Ahlgren

Date: 1966
Description: Peggy Algren (b. 1943) and her father Henry Lawrence Ahlgren at her graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1966. At the time Henry Ahlgren was a Un...
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Vietnam Teach-In

Date: 05 22 1965
Description: Janes Aronson, editor of the National Guardian, a progressive weekly newspaper, speaking to a Vietnam War teach-in.
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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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