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Double Wedding

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: High school students stage a mock double wedding in their Family Living class.
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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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Vending Machines

Date: 04 20 1967
Description: High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
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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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Father Groppi at School Boycott

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Description: Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting.
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Crossing Guard Helping Student

Date: 09 1956
Description: A crossing guard helps a young student to cross the street at a cross walk at Abert and Green Bay streets in Milwaukee. Two cars (one a Chevrolet), have en...
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Studying at Downer College

Date: 1933
Description: Two women studying at a table at Milwaukee-Downer College. There is a tapestry on one wall and a vase of flowers and several books on the table.
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Relaxing at Downer College

Date: 1933
Description: Two women casually reading in a dorm room at Milwaukee-Downer College. A map of Milwaukee hangs on one wall.
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Teachers' Seminary

Date: 1867
Description: 1868-1875. Founded by Dr. Joseph Salzman (featured in the vignette at left, teaching). Vignette, lower left, features St. Francis Seminary, founded in 1856...
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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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Football Game

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Description: View of men on field during football game. Possibly taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the background a crowd is watching on stands in front of a large bric...
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Student Chef

Date: 1961
Description: A student chef works in the kitchen of a Milwaukee restaurant with two older chefs as part of his training in a Restaurant and Hotel Cookery program at Mil...
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Students in Cabinetmaking Class

Date: 12 20 1961
Description: Three students work in the shop for a cabinetmaking class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Students Tour Hospital Delivery Room

Date: 01 23 1968
Description: Students wearing face masks and sterile gowns visit the delivery room at Doctors Hospital as part of a family living class. The student on the right who is...
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Power Sewing Class

Date: 01 16 1967
Description: Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin...
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Photography Students in the Studio

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Graphics Arts Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Three students listen to an instructor talk about a lithographic camera in a graphic arts class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Shoe Rebuilding Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Machine Typesetting Class

Date: 03 21 1961
Description: Students work on linotype machines in a typesetting class at Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Data Processing

Date: 11 10 1960
Description: A student studies key punch operation in a data processing class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. She is seated at a very large computer.

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