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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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Tailoring at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Helen Johnson, tailoring instructor, and Mrs. Edwin (Gertrude) Johnson, student, at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll St...
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"Tractorette" Esther Goubert

Date: 1943
Description: Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c...
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University Extension League Style Show

Date: 01 30 1950
Description: Three of 15 models who will display play dresses, hats, coats, suits, robes and evening gowns at the meeting of the University Extension League are, from l...
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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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Diversified Farming Campaign

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: A group of men and women standing outside the New Home School to listen as Professor Clark is speaking on the subject of diversified farming. He uses a poi...
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...
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Extension Employees Constructing Lecture Charts

Date: 1919
Description: Group of male and female workers assembling International Harvester Agricultural Extension lecture charts.
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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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Flight For Life Demonstration

Date: 05 1984
Description: "Firemen were given a demonstration by a Flight For Life crew from Milwaukee."
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Fire Fighting Instruction

Date: 05 1984
Description: "Firemen were given a demonstration by a Flight For Life crew from Milwaukee."
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Madison Vocational and Adult School

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: Madison Vocational and Adult School Style Show with two students from the millinery class. Modeling their hats are, left, Mrs. Emmanuel A. Fokakis of 3826 ...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: Mrs. Jerry Schaldach of Middleton models a Persian lamb coat which she styled in a fur remodeling class at Madison Vocational and Adult School, 211-213 Nor...
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Job Interview Tips

Date: 04 10 1957
Description: Virginia Strickland, a senior at East High School, demonstrating making a good first impression at a job interview by smiling warmly, maintaining an alert ...
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Hospital Communications Workshop

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: The workshop, which consisted of all phases of communication between people, met once a week at the hospital and was directed by the University of Wisconsi...
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Open House at New Madison Opportunity Center Work Shop

Date: 02 01 1965
Description: Tours are conducted during the open house at the new Madison Opportunities Center, 714 Market Place. The photograph shows the workshop where handicapped pe...
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Beauty College

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Description: A hairdresser is standing behind a customer, who reacts to her new hairdo.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Manual Training Images

Date: 1904
Description: A page from the book "What Hampton Graduates Are Doing" which includes two photographs. At the top center is an oval-framed portrait of Richard T. Coles. T...

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