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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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Wesleyan Seminary in Eau Claire

Date: 1860
Description: Front entry to the Wesleyan Seminary. It was built in the early 1860's on the site of the present High School building.
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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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Cub Scout Den Mothers

Date: 11 17 1944
Description: Every Friday afternoon 32 Cub Scout Den Mothers meet at the vocational school to learn crafts that they will teach to Cub Scouts. Mrs. Ted (Mildred) Field,...
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Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Close-up of a students' hands at a Vocational School cooking class sewing up a turkey after stuffing it with dressing. Another person is standing in the ba...
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
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Vocational School Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. Margot Nelson, the teacher, is showing students Bertha Haack and Josephine Scheerer the technique of stuffing the body cavity of a turkey at a Vocatio...
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Women Displaying Home Crafts

Date: 10 31 1956
Description: Mrs. Lester Paul, Homecrafter Chairman for the University League, and Mrs. Irving Raznikov, Homecrafter Chairman of the Easter Seal Society, displaying hom...
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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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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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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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Vocational School Christmas Seal Work Committee

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Members of the vocational school Christmas Seal work committee, and the departments they represent, are, left to right, (back row), Herbert Zindars, Trade ...
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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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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 11 08 1946
Description: Three women wearing hats they made in a millinery class at the Madison Vocational School. Seated is Mrs. David (Hilda) Gay, and standing behind her are Mrs...
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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 12 08 1946
Description: Five women members of the millinery class at Madison Vocational School admiring their finished hats. Left to right: Mrs. A.J. (Cora) Niebauer, Mrs. W. H.(G...
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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 12 08 1946
Description: Three women in the millinery class at the Madison Vocational School looking at fabrics. Left to right: Mrs. Martelle Swanson, class instructor, and student...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 03 19 1947
Description: Portrait of Regina E. Groves Barnhart, director of Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 22 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Director, Regina Groves, with a student (?).
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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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