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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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Youth Radio Workshop

Date: 02 07 1948
Description: Betty Booth, associate editor of Seventeen magazine, being interviewed by Madison high school students on the Madison Youth Radio Workshop program b...
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West High School Hockey Team

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Group portrait of the undefeated West High School hockey team in uniform with hockey sticks posing on the ice at a rink outdoors.
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 28 1949
Description: At left, Penny Brown, 201 North Broom Street, and her doll clothing and hat exhibit. At right, Karen Peterson, 212 Marion Street, models one of the hats.
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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 Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Second place spelling bee champion Dale Sorenson, left, receiving a $25 dollar check from Roy L. Matson, State Journal editor. Looking on are Dale's mother...
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"Let's Go North For A South Victory"

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of Beth Knope, winner of the 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, holding her trophy and standing between her teacher Floy Kendrick, on the left, and h...
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State Normal School Girls' Tennis Courts

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Description: Elevated view of girls playing tennis on the lawn at the State Normal School.
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Children Folk Dancing in School Festival

Date: 1913
Description: Students of Palos Park School folk dancing at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Girls' Relay Race

Date: 1913
Description: Students and teachers gathered in a field for the girls' relay race at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Group of Children at School March

Date: 1913
Description: Spectators on bleachers are watching students participating in a "Grand March" at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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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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Madison City Track Meet

Date: 05 07 1954
Description: Participants cross the finish line of the 880-yard run at the city track meet held at Madison East High School athletic field. Larry Graham of West, right,...
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Parents' Day

Date: 10 16 1964
Description: The original caption states: "Mr. and Mrs. William Frasier, Rhinelander, chat with their son, Larry, defensive halfback, at practice."
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Costumed Students "The Peoples of Wisconsin"

Date: 1948
Description: Lakewood School students, costumed for various performances under the general title "The Peoples of Wisconsin" given in connection with the Wisconsin Cente...
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Madison Safety Patrol Delegates Prepare to Leave for Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Madison's 31 delegates, representing Madison public and parochial schools, prepare to travel to the Annual National School of Safety patrol assembly in Was...
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Page 10 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with five photographs and a caption at bottom that reads: "Miss Rulifson's[?] girls on a Monday hike."
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Page 12 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Some youngsters and a big campus snowball." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "A...

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