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Getting Out the School Paper

Date: 1935
Description: African American students work on a school paper as part of the Farm Security Administration sharecropper resettlement project.
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Central High School Tychoberahn Business Office

Date: 04 16 1929
Description: Central High School Tychoberahn business office with students working at tables.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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WAVES in a Classroom

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Description: WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in a classroom sitting at typewriters listening to headphones studying code.
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Vocational School Typing Room

Date: 11 22 1954
Description: Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street. View of typing room #442 from the back, featuring IBM typewriters. The ceiling...
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Vocational School Typing Room

Date: 11 22 1954
Description: Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street. Angled view of a typing room #442 from the front of the classroom. There are l...
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Students Publishing High School Newspaper

Date: 10 24 1955
Description: Central High School students, Nancee Meyers, Jean Loy, and Colenthia Hill working on an edition of the school newspaper, "Madison Mirror."
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Groves-Barnhart Secretarial School

Date: 12 12 1945
Description: Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s...
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Myles Horton with Typewriter

Date: 1934
Description: Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors.
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"Highlander Flash" Newspaper

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Description: CIO school in the 1940s. Features two women reviewing the "Highlander Flash," a newsletter produced by the Highlander Folk School.
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James Forman

Date: 06 1962
Description: James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office.
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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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Madison Vocational School Typing Class

Date: 04 25 1951
Description: Ferne Stone, Madonna Egan, and Vivian Williams practice typing in the Madison Vocational School commercial department's night school typing class. Eight ot...
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Putnam Catholic Academy

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Description: View across desks with typewriters in a classroom. A windowed partition separates it from a classroom with desks facing a blackboard on the other side.
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Naval Students in Typing Class

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Description: A Navy student oversees other students in a typing class at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Students Typing in Classroom

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Description: Elevated view of a classroom of Naval students wearing headphones while learning how to type at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Students Learn Typing at Navy School

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Description: A large class of Naval students learn typing at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Student Operating Telegraph

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Description: One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is...
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Typewriters Waiting to be Repaired

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Description: A table top is filled with typewriters at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). Two signs identify which need repair, and which have been repaired. In th...

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