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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W...
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Armand F. Ketterer with Four Eighth Grade Pupils

Date: 11 04 1947
Description: Armand F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin Elementary School, shown discussing an Education Week poster with four eighth grade pupils. Left to right: Sandra...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: A.F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin elementary school is at his desk looking over Wisconsin State Journal Badger Spelling Bee material with two of h...
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Yerkes Observatory Tour

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Three high school science teachers and a Kiwanis Club representative escort 22 pupils from Madison's five high schools on a Kiwanis-sponsored educational t...
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West Junior High School Spelling Finalists

Date: 04 04 1950
Description: Roger E. Trafford, principal at West junior high school, standing in an auditorium with his students who won the first four places in the school spelling b...
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Nakoma School Spelling Contest Finalists

Date: 04 07 1950
Description: The six finalists in the recent Nakoma School contest to pick a champion for the city finals of the State Journal's Badger spelling bee look up misspelled ...
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Randall School Spelling Champion

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: John Wyngaard, Randall school spelling champion, is shown reviewing the word list with the two runners-up and principal H. Ralph Allen. Left to right are: ...
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Badger Spelling Bee Winner

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, ...
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Allis Grade School Athletic Banquet

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Four Allis grade school athletic captains with their principal, Walter Barr, and East high school assistant football coach, Ferris "Red" McKinley, who was ...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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St. James School First Day

Date: 09 03 1952
Description: A group of students are shown 'trudging' up the steps at St. James school as Sister Mary Ferdinella, principal, welcomes her flock from atop the steps.
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Frank Allis School Father and Son Banquet

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Sport captains for the four sports teams were honored at the annual Father and Son Banquet at the Frank Allis School. Seated, left to right, are: Don Wagne...
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West High School Clothing Drive

Date: 12 11 1953
Description: Members of the committee for the West High School clothing drive for needy children pose with bags of the clothing they collected. Principal Ralph Christof...
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Madison East High School Honor Students

Date: 06 08 1954
Description: Retiring Madison East High School principal Foster Randall presents honor cards to two of the school's graduating honor students, Robert Allman and Barbara...
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Sunnyside School

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Students at Sunnyside School, 3902 East Washington Avenue, count money from the school lunch program with guidance from school principal George Dohms. Left...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 04 11 1956
Description: Cherokee Heights School principal Emery Bainbridge stands beside student Robert Kurtenacker and his mother, Elizabeth, who needed blood donations during he...
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Waunakee High School Athletic Banquet

Date: 03 27 1958
Description: Pictured at the annual Waunakee High School Athletic Banquet are, seated: Dick Trotta, coach; standing left to right: Dave Williamson, 1957 football captai...
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Badger Conference Basketball Championship Trophy Presented to Wisconsin High

Date: 03 21 1961
Description: The Badger Conference basketball championship trophy is presented to Wisconsin High School. Shown (left to right) are: Warren Selbo, Stoughton High School ...
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Wisconsin High School Principal Honored

Date: 03 03 1964
Description: During Wisconsin High School's last pep meeting, Principal John J. Goldgruber, center, smiles as he holds a memory book presented to him by students Charle...
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William F. Gray, David E. Kiser, William D. Lamont, and Henry Chappel

Date: 06 19 1886
Description: Ferrotype/tintype portrait of three students with their principal, taken in a studio in front of a painted backdrop, the day after their high school gradua...

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