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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Friendly Badger

Date: 12 19 1968
Description: A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults.
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Thomas Ridge

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Description: People playing golf on Thomas Ridge at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wrigh...
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Boy Scout Sled Race

Date: 01 24 1953
Description: Boy scout sled team participating in the Klondike Derby sled race. The boys are pulling the sled on the Monona Golf Course, with Nichols School in the back...
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Edgewood Students with Trophy

Date: 03 14 1945
Description: Steve Slattery and John Eichman, co-captains of the 1945 Crusader cage team, hold the trophy awarded to the winners of the annual St. Norbert College State...
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Yerkes Observatory Tour

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Three high school science teachers and a Kiwanis Club representative escort 22 pupils from Madison's five high schools on a Kiwanis-sponsored educational t...
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Badger Boys' State Representatives

Date: 06 13 1950
Description: Three Madison Badger Boys' State representatives pose for a portrait at Olin Terrace overlooking Lake Monona. They are, from left to right: Owen Roberts, W...
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Madison West High School Girls' Club

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Four members of the Madison West High School girls' club collect newspapers, magazines, books, and cardboard for a paper drive. Proceeds will go toward sch...
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Basketball Team in Alabama

Date: 02 18 1915
Description: School basketball team seated outside school with team basketball. Original caption reads, "Even though most of the country schools of Alabama have no luxu...
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Students and Teacher(?) Outside School

Date: 1915
Description: Class of students and teacher(?) standing outside a rural school known as the Blackjack School.
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School Children at Corn Testing Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Group of school children gathered outdoors with a teacher examining corn kernels after germination.
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Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
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Children's Class of the Milwaukee Turners

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Description: Children’s class of the Milwaukee Turners, gathered outside in a park. George Brosius appears on the platform and several people are wearing band uniforms....
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Part-Time Jobs for High School Students

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Wisconsin High School student Ted Hegley works post-school hours in the sporting goods department of Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig.
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Nakoma PTA Blood Drive

Date: 01 04 1954
Description: Girl Scout Betsy Paddock, age eleven, talks to Lawrence and Arneita Halle in an effort to recruit donors for an upcoming Red Cross blood drive at Nakoma Sc...
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Students in Snow in front of School

Date: 1920
Description: Students in winter attire pose on the snowy lawn of the school. A few of the children have sleds. A woman stands near the arched entrance of the school bui...
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Frank Allis Basketball Team

Date: 03 05 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Frank Allis Elementary School basketball team, with coach and manager.
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Rural School Group

Date: 1900
Description: Rural school group posed outside the schoolhouse.
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Vogue Fashion Show For Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Participating in the Vogue fashion show, designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew, is Donna Haesig, a student at Monroe High School. She is model...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...

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