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Tin Shop at the Indian Industrial School

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Description: Students working in a tin shop at the Indian Industrial School.
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Class in Accounting Principles

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Description: A University Extension Accounting class posing in the classroom, with men standing and women seated. Included are Berhart, Jackson, Ollinger, Stewart, Keit...
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University of Minnesota Bee Culture

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Description: Display for the University of Minnesota's Division of Bee Culture. An unknown man wearing a suit and tie and holding a hive frame stands near the display. ...
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Interior of Greenhouse

Date: 1909
Description: View of the interior of a greenhouse at the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
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Agricultural Workshop

Date: 1909
Description: Young men work on woodworking projects in a manual training class at the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
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Hamptom Institute

Date: 1941
Description: A view of the working dairy barn taken from the central alley of the barn. The cows face inward toward the alley, and the barn employs stanchions to keep t...
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Westminster College

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Description: Two female students stand with a male teacher during a Practical Journalism Training class in the newspaper shop at Westminster College. The students and t...
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Bliss Electrical School

Date: 1950
Description: Students stand at work stations in the machine shop at Bliss Electrical School. They men all appear to be wiring something on a mount.
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YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association)

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Description: Students sitting and standing at workstations set at long tables during a cooking class at the Young Women's Christian Association. A teacher's desk in the...
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Students Learn to Bake

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Description: These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
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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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Learning to Shoe Horses

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Description: Men conscripted to learn horseshoeing pose together at the American Express Company. A horse is partially visible on the left side of the image. Rows of ho...
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Learning to Repair Radiators

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Description: View of a group of men in a workshop learning to repair radiators for a war training class.
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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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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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Telecourse on WMVS-TV

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Description: Paul Witzke gives instruction on the slide rule in a televised class on WMVS-TV.
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Students in Automotive Class

Date: 01 17 1967
Description: Charles Richter (foreground) works on an engine as William Pritzl (left, background) and Timothy Hendricks work on a chassis in a high school vocational ca...
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Arc Welding

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Description: Franklin Fransway receives vocational training in arc welding.
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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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