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Vocational School Aptitude Testing

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Two students, Stanley Stemp Jr., Central High School, and Victor Brockmiller Jr., West High School, assemble mechanical devices as part of the vocational a...
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Bookkeeping at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Loretta Nelson, a commercial student, practicing on a bookkeeping machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street.
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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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Nurse Taking Patient's Temperature

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Description: A nurse, possibly a student nurse, looks at a thermometer after taking the temperature of a female patient laying in bed.
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Women Learning Factory Work

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Description: View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory.
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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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Photography Students in the Studio

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Data Processing

Date: 11 10 1960
Description: A student studies key punch operation in a data processing class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. She is seated at a very large computer.
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A Structural Technology Student

Date: 12 11 1961
Description: A structural technology student works on a project in a drawing class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Baker's Dozen Bread Club

Date: 07 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearling demonstrating a bread-making technique to members of the Baker's Dozen Bread Club.
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Auto Mechanics Student

Date: 1978
Description: A student using an engine lathe in an auto mechanics class at Indianhead Technical Institute. He is wearing safety glasses, jeans and an Ashland wrestling ...
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Vocational Class

Date: 1978
Description: Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ...
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Office Skills Class

Date: 1978
Description: Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters.
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Fine Sewing and Lace Making

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Description: Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded.

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