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Platteville State Normal School, Summer Session

Date: 07 05 1922
Description: Panoramic group portrait of female and male students attending summer school at the Platteville State Normal School. Inscription at the bottom reads, "Prof...
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Soldiers Operating Crawler Tractor

Date: 1958
Description: Sergeant Dennis McGhee and a student in an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) built for the U.S. Army. The student is learning how to operate the ...
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Portrait of Agassiz and Agassiz

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Description: Carte-de-visite photomontage double portrait of the geologist and zoologist, Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz (1807-1873). Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoo...
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Samuel Sterling Sherman, Educator

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Description: Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren...
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Kansas State Agricultural College Students Working

Date: 01 1921
Description: Three groups of male students working on three different tractors outdoors, including a Titan 10-20, while two men (professors?) look on at the Kansas Stat...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma...
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Vera McCampbell Testifying

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Description: Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d...
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Myra Page

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Description: Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School.
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1943
Description: Lillian A. Heinrichs, Lucille Eltiste, and Esther Goubert receive instruction from H.E. des Granges during "Tractorette" class while Wesley Kollehorst, fie...
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Highlander High School Students

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Description: Portrait of six unidentified high school students, with their teacher, at Highlander Folk School.
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Wadmalaw Island Citizenship Group

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Description: Two women at the blackboard during a Wadmalaw Island citizenship group evening class.
Drawing

Second Ward School

Date: 01 23 1869
Description: Second Ward School with a teacher and students in the schoolyard.
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Children at School Table

Date: 1900
Description: Children in a kindergarten class sit around a table with their teacher, probably Flora LeClaire. The calendars on the wall indicate that this photograph w...
Print

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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Chef Carson Gulley and Apprentices

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig...
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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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Nellie Maxwell

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Description: Portrait of Farmers' Institute Instructor, Nellie Maxwell. On right border of print the word "WATER" is handwritten, vertically.
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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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Diesel School

Date: 1937
Description: George Perikoff instructs a group of men at International Harvester's diesel school.

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