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Kindergarten Astronauts

Date: 10 11 1968
Description: Kindergarten students wear space helmets they made from buckets as part of a class project designed to interest them in current events. A cardboard "Apollo...
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Electronics Class

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Two electronics students in class studying.
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School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
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School Boys Using Wood Tools

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Description: Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise.
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Wisconsin Central Pilot Training

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Description: Wisconsin Central Airline's flight simulator which was designed to teach the airline's pilots how to fly with instruments.
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Secretary Using Telephone

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro...
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Mr. Moser's Barber Class

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Mr. Dallas Moser, vocational school instructor, pointing to a customer's hair while students from his barber class are looking on.
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Barber Science Class

Date: 08 27 1929
Description: Students in the first class in Barber Science with instructor, Chester Feavel, pointing at an anatomy chart.
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University of Wisconsin School for Workers

Date: 07 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U...
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Smelter Workers

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Description: A group of smelter workers, with their hands raised as if responding to a question, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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George Guernsey at CIO Workshop

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Description: George Guernsey, with crutches, teaching CIO students at a Highlander Folk School workshop. Chalkboard makes reference to Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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United Rubber Workers Conference

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Description: Rubber workers Educational Conference. Fifth from left in front row, Zilphia Horton, sixth from left is Mr. Lewis, the Educational Director for the Rubber ...
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Young Woman Teaching Labor Class

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Description: A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School.
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Edgewood High School Yearbook Editors

Date: 01 06 1949
Description: Etta Mae Geier and Clayton Bossart, co-editors of the Crusader, the Edgewood High School yearbook, working on the "dummies" for the annual publicati...
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Refugees Learn the Tailoring Trade

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Description: Unidentified refugees learn the tailoring trade; Germany.
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winner

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship winner Barbara Thaller receives guidance from instructor Fritz Carpenter.
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Groves-Barnhart Business School

Date: 02 01 1950
Description: Groves-Barnhart Business School students studying in a classroom.

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