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Teacher and Girls Looking at Chart

Date: 10 12 1935
Description: Teacher and two girls looking at rat growth chart.
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Chilocco Indian Schools

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Description: Chilocco Indian School Buildings. Students play and horses roam in the foreground.
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Home From School

Date: 1951
Description: Two students, a boy and a girl, with their dog, apparently walking home from school, an image that seems to capture the essence of life for rural Wisconsin...
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International Harvester Farm Exhibit

Date: 06 1975
Description: Students from Chicago's Cyrus McCormick School viewing a replica of the original McCormick Reaper at the International Harvester exhibit at the Chicago Mus...
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First graders at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students admire kittens and ...
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
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George E. Thompson, as a Cowboy

Date: 1905
Description: George E. Thompson, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a cowboy. Pictured riding a horse and wearing a cowboy hat. Part of a ye...
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Lincoln School Fourth Graders

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Two fourth graders at Lincoln School, Freddiemae Hill, left, and Russell Allen, Jr, right, are observing 10,000 bees that are preparing for winter in their...
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Republican Elephant

Date: 10 29 1948
Description: Republican elephant, with students "inside," who kicked the ball back and forth with the Democratic donkey at Madison East Pageant night at the East vs. Ra...
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Democratic Donkey

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: Democratic donkey, with students "inside," who kicked the ball back and forth with the Republican elephant at Madison East Pageant night at the East vs. Ra...
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Caged Turkey at Longfellow School

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Six Longfellow School kindergarten students admiring a turkey in a cage. They named the turkey "Cindy" as they learned about turkeys as part of their schoo...
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Dudgeon School Students

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Johnny Rengstorff looks for a missing hamster near a piano, while Danny Steihl, Susan Lorenz and Phillip Johnson watch. Judy Erb examines the hamster's cag...
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Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
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Washington School Children with Pupppies

Date: 03 30 1949
Description: Two children pose with puppies found at Washington School. On the left is Nancy Anderson, 19 N. Broom Street. On the right is Johnny Melby, 519 W. Washing...
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: At left, Billy Powers of 306 Norris Court shows his butterfly collection to classmate Dennis Rose, 1028 Clymer Place. The butterfly collection won first p...
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Student Leaving Home for School on the First Day

Date: 09 10 1949
Description: Five-year-old Jenna Icke waves to her mother Mrs. George W. Icke, and to her brother, Phil, and dog, Tippy, as she heads off to school for the first day of...
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Nurse with School Group

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Description: Theta Mead posed outside a log cabin schoolhouse with a teacher and her class. One of the girls has her arm around a dog.
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Opossum at Lincoln School

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Three girls from Lincoln School pose with an opossum that escaped from its cage. The students are, left to right, Nancy Hagen, Jean Diane Gutzman, and Jane...

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