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Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
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Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Four foreign students at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School learning English from Margery N. Stewart.
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Women in Safe Driving Class

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Charlotte Holmes (with tire) and Mrs. Lee (Marjorie) Edwards (with wrench) change a tire during a class session at Madison Vocational School's first post-w...
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Madison Vocational School French Class

Date: 02 10 1949
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Vocational School French class discussing French customs with their teacher, Mrs. Erwin H. (Lucy) Ackerknecht, , seated at fa...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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Madison Vocational School Cake Decorating Class

Date: 1951
Description: Victor Hammersley, a professional baker and teacher, supervises as Elizabeth Zweifel and Mae Grelle decorate a cake at the Madison Vocational School.
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Constructive Workshops For Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly-retired men and women. Pictured le...
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: A view of the female residence at Hampton Institute. The left side of the front porch contains potted plant,s and three women converse near the steps. Anot...
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Hampton Institute

Date: 1872
Description: Female students garden next to the Home Economics Practice House. The house has clapboard siding on its two stories and there is a porch on the front and b...
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Knot-Tying Lesson

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women sit in chairs inside what appears to be a classroom or gymnasium while practicing knot-tying. They follow an instructor's example...
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North Alabama Baptist Academy

Date: 1915
Description: View across yard of a group of African American students from the North Alabama Baptist Academy gathered on the building's front steps for an outdoor group...
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Montgomery State Normal School

Date: 03 03 1915
Description: A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch...
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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Extension Employees Constructing Lecture Charts

Date: 1919
Description: Group of male and female workers assembling International Harvester Agricultural Extension lecture charts.
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Embroidery Class

Date: 1920
Description: Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ...
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Telegraphy Class

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Description: Students at their desks in a telegraphy class.
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Manicuring Class

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Description: Women seated at a table learning to give manicures as part of a manicuring class. Behind the group another woman is sitting in a chair receiving a scalp m...
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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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