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Splash Party

Date: 08 01 1970
Description: To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built.
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Class in Session

Date: 05 01 1963
Description: A female student leads a class of fellow students. She is a member of the Future Teachers of America Club.
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Continuation School Apprentice Class

Date: 04 17 1913
Description: Students at work in their Milwaukee continuation school apprentice class, which is through the University Extension Division in Madison.
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Factory Girls

Date: 1922
Description: Factory girls' “club” gathered for coffee in plant refreshment room in the Milwaukee Paper Box Co.
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Studious Student

Date: 1957
Description: High school student, Judith Castine, leaning on a desk, studying at West Milwaukee High School.
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Boy Riding Unicycle with His Pet Raccoon

Date: 07 25 1967
Description: Newspaper caption reads: "Passersby don't know it, but what appears to be a coonskin cap around the neck of Todd Vasas, 16, of 2773 S. Shore Drive, is the ...
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Clearing a Path with a Snowblower

Date: 01 12 1963
Description: Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-po...
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Five High Wheeler Bicycle Riders

Date: 1890
Description: Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on...
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
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Family Portrait

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A family posing together indoors; the father is bouncing a young girl standing on his knees. Caption reads: "Mrs. Alan S. Smith and her two sons watched as...
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Barbara Brumder

Date: 1931
Description: Thirteen-year-old Barbara Brumder posing standing with her left hand resting on the mantel of the fireplace in the living room of the family home at 2030 E...
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Trimming the Tree

Date: 1932
Description: The children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Herbert E., Philip, and Barbara putting decorations on an electrically lighted Christmas ...
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Christmas 1933

Date: 12 25 1933
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Barbara, Herbert E. and Philip, posing standing in the living room of the family ho...
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Wauwatosa Teens with Souvenirs

Date: 08 23 1956
Description: Five young women are smiling and posing around an open suitcase, which contains various items. One woman is setting a hat on another woman's head. Caption ...
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Practice Job Interview

Date: 03 13 1968
Description: A young man is sitting at a table with a microphone in front of him. He is facing an older man, whose back is to the camera. Caption/article excerpt reads:...
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High School Job Fair

Date: 05 14 1968
Description: Three young women are sitting on one side of a table facing two men and a woman, whose backs are to the camera. Similar arrangements of groups are in the b...
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Practice Job Interview

Date: 03 13 1968
Description: A woman and a man are sitting at a table. The woman is speaking into a microphone. A tape deck in the foreground is connected to a television. Caption read...

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