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Sam Bonano Modelling Clay

Date: 10 27 1932
Description: Sam Bonano, 17, 713 Milton Street, modelling clay into images of the Nativity at Madison Vocational School.
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Vocational School Aptitude Testing

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: C.H. Waller, in charge of the test, is checking the time of Matt Champion of West High, as part of the vocational and social diagnostic testing offered by ...
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 10 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Students at tables, mostly men, with notebooks and calculators. A woman stands near the window wh...
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Ford Accounting School

Date: 06 17 1947
Description: A large group of students studying at the Ford Accounting School.
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: John Reuter, veteran and student, working at a milling machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street.
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Easter Seal Volunteer Workers

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Vocational school students and Easter Seal Workers stuffing envelopes for the Easter Seal campaign for mailing to Madison residents. Pictured left to right...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Florence Brewer, seated, from England, learning sewing from Helen John, with Richard W. Bardwell, director of Madison Vocational and Adult Education School...
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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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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: Chef Instructor Eldred Heiser looking on as student William Moran of Boscobel is slicing a leg of veal for noon lunch at the newly-opened Restaurant Instit...
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba...
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: Student Mauris Hostak of Kewaunee, Wisconsin checking on beef stew in the oven at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School.
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Central High School Trade and Technical Courses

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Two men wear welding masks while operating an acetylene cutting machine while three other students look on. Welding Instructor Fred Theiler (right) watches...
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Central High School Trade and Technical Courses

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Student Bob Reed operates a sheet metal bending machine while his instructor Winfield Martin supervises. They are both participating in the first year Cent...
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Central High School Trade and Technical Courses

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Drafting student Bruce Maxwell confers with his instructor, Herbert Zimdars. They are participating in Central High School's first year of Trade and Techn...
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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Clarence Marty, a student in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, demonstrates how to measure the voltage in a ...
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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Jim Studee, left, and Gordon Jenkins, students in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, build a television set. ...
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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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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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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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