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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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Aviation Class

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Description: Group portrait of women enrolled in an aviation class.
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Women Aviators

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Description: Studio portrait of women who are taking flying lessons. Several of the women are dressed in furs.
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Governor Goodland and Little Friends of America School Children

Date: 03 23 1944
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of Governor Goodland signing a scrapbook prepared by the Little Friends of America, Baraboo children's organization, for t...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Group of adults listening to a lecturer, probably Dr. Philip S. Fonert talking on American history. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicag...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 03 1945
Description: Group of students listening to a lecture. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for s...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 10 1945
Description: Group portrait of Summer Institute class. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for s...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Students listening to Rev. Claude Williams teaching "Religion in Contemporary Society." The blackboard says "Gospel of the Kingdom: The Gospel to the Poor,...
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Lake Nebagamon School Students

Date: 06 08 1948
Description: Group portrait of student members of grades five through eight of Lake Nebagamon village school, Douglas County. The students are pictured as they visited ...
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Chef Carson Gulley and Apprentices

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig...
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Bench Work

Date: 1919
Description: View of a teacher watching over a group of male students as they practice woodwork at benches inside a classroom. The text on the blackboard hanging on the...
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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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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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Cooking Class in the Kitchen

Date: 11 08 1984
Description: Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat).
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Shoe Rebuilding Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Carpentry Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Structural Technology students work in a carpentry class at the Milwaukee School of Technology.
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Middleton Fourth Graders Win Encyclopedia

Date: 05 19 1961
Description: Aurilla Dorer's fourth grade class at Middleton's Elm Lawn school wins a set of the World Book Encyclopedia from Wisconsin State Journal columnist "Uncle R...
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Paula Suomi in her seventh grade classroom at Cherokee Junior High. She is the mother of three.

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