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Classroom

Date: 10 06 1971
Description: Early childhood classroom in which two volunteer teachers are instructing children.
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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Language Lab Reel-To-Reel Tape Machines

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College.
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Teachers Picket

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school.
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Miss Lutie Stearns

Date: 1922
Description: Portrait of Lutie Stearns, copied from 'The Echo' of 1922, the Milwaukee Normal Annual.
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Charles Preston Cary

Date: 11 14 1913
Description: Three-quarter length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Charles Preston Cary, Milwaukee and Madison educator.
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Ellen Clara Sabin

Date: 04 08 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a studio backdrop of Ellen Clara Sabin, Milwaukee teacher and administrator.
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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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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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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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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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"Milwaukee Journal" Tour Group

Date: 12 08 1931
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of Oconomowoc High School students on a tour at the "Milwaukee Journal." They are viewing the newspaper's presses in oper...
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Sixth District School No. 2, Fifth Grade Class

Date: 1901
Description: Milwaukee Public school, Sixth district School no. 2, Fifth grade class. teacher Miss H. Kather, Patrick Shaunnessy Principal. Boys: Emil Dankert, Charles ...
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Maria Diaz

Date: 02 03 1967
Description: A woman demonstrating a dance move while a man is watching. Caption reads: "Concentration is required when taking a dance lesson. Miss Maria Diaz, an instr...
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Thanksgiving Dinner in Class

Date: 11 21 1967
Description: A woman is carving a turkey, which is on a table full of many dishes. Several children are sitting and looking on from behind their desks. Caption reads: "...
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Debutante Training

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: A woman is holding hands with two young women, with several young men and women looking on from behind them. Caption reads: "Walk slowly," were the instruc...
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Judo Class

Date: 07 05 1967
Description: A judo instructor is coaching two young men, while three more young men are looking on. Caption reads: "Instructor Marshall Bullock, 2602 N. 19th st., work...
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Franklin School District Teachers Picketing

Date: 09 11 1984
Description: Several men and women are standing outside a building, many holding signs. Among the signs are: "Quality Education for Children but No Control," "Action fo...
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Hays School Graduation Cake

Date: 06 14 1956
Description: Three young people and one adult woman are sitting around a cake shaped like a book with writing on its open pages. One young man is holding a knife over t...
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Wisconsin Education Association Annual Meeting

Date: 11 04 1966
Description: A woman wearing a leopard-print coat and a scarf over her head is looking at a person in the foreground on the left. Caption reads: "Teachers, arms laden w...

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