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Women's Driving Class

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Instructor Kenneth Davies demonstrating a mock-up automobile motor to Mrs. Israel (Ruth) Zelitch and Mrs. Donald (Helen) Napper during Madison Vocational S...
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Teacher Attending the Teacher Conference

Date: 02 11 1949
Description: Violette Stewart, Marquette School, Madison, one of thirteen teachers from southern Wisconsin schools photographed while in Madison to attend the conferenc...
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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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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Marquette school gym teacher, Glenn Hall, referees a game of "sisters" at Marquette school family fun night.
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1949
Description: The Badger Spelling Bee at Kegonsa School, Route 1, Stoughton. Shown, left to right, are Mrs. Alvilda Orvold, teacher; and students Robert Iverson, Ann Ive...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: A teacher, probably Mrs. Regina Barnhart at Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, giving a shorthand test to two female students.
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Verona School Children and Train Engine

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Thirty-six Verona first and second grade pupils rode the Chicago and North Western train from Verona to Madison, for twenty-two it was a first train ride. ...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winners

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Instructor Fritz Carpenter discusses Paul Hochstetter's colorful water color of a University of Wisconsin barn for the three winners of Madison Art Associa...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winner

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship winner Barbara Thaller receives guidance from instructor Fritz Carpenter.
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All-State Band Concert

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: Dave Cartwright, Helen Hurd, and Mary Rose Gallagher are standing with Frederick C. Ebbs, conductor of the All-State band concert. The students have been a...
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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars.
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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: Dorothy Busacker, a student teacher from Rockford, Illinois, at the University of Wisconsin Summer Reading Clinic with three students. She is demonstratin...
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St. Bernard's First Grade Students With Sister Eulogia

Date: 09 07 1949
Description: Sister Mary Eulogia, O. P., St. Bernard's School, is shown with first graders Jean Ann Kiefer and her brother, Jerry Kiefer, in a classroom. The children o...
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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 09 25 1949
Description: Esther T. Carswell, an art teacher at Central Junior High School, works with Dennis Herfel and Anne Holm as they make Halloween decorations for patients at...
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Reverand Otto Boenki of Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Portrait of the Reverand Otto Boenki, one of the nine priests on the staff of of the new Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary, located at 5810 Cottage Gro...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, brushed up on her typing and attended other classes in shorthand and bookkeeping wh...
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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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