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Female Student Daydreams at Desk

Date: 1929
Description: Adolescent schoolgirl Miss Genivieve Graves seems to be daydreaming at her school desk.
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Third Grade Class

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Description: The third grade class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Woman Teaching Art Class

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Description: An art class being taught by a woman at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wrig...
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Lorraine Gray and Frank Gray

Date: 01 11 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-...
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Interior of Schoolhouse on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: An interior view of "the village school" on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. A teacher stands while a classroom full of students sit at...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on...
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Dane County 4-H Leaders

Date: 02 02 1952
Description: Group portrait of ten Dane County 4-H Club leaders who were named state honor achievement members for their 1951 club work. Left to right, front row: Ednab...
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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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Teacher Explaining "Rag Doll" Test

Date: 1913
Description: Teacher explaining seed germination test ("rag doll" test) to her students. Original caption reads: "Mrs. Agnes Ryan Page explaining the Rag Doll Test to h...
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Young Sigrid Schultz

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Description: Young Sigrid Schultz with her mother in Berlin, at what appears to be an open-air restaurant. They are both fashionably dressed in fine hats and dresses.
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Upper Room

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Description: A class picture with four rows posing outdoors, with a stone wall behind them on the left, and a brick wall on the right. In front is a row of boys sitting...
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Gray Gables Lake Kegonsa — F.G. Lane

Date: 1932
Description: View of a lakeside cottage with a man, woman and boy standing in front. A bench is on the left near the lake. Another cottage is on the right in the backgr...
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Room 2, Public School

Date: 1911
Description: Students are posing sitting sideways at their desks in the classroom for a group portrait. The teacher is standing in the back near a door.
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Class Portrait of Second Grade at Pettit School

Date: 02 04 1918
Description: Class portrait at Pettit School, also known as Saint Raphael's School. Thomas O'Dea is sitting in the 1st row of desks, 3rd from the left. All of the stude...
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People Eating in a Classroom

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Description: Indoor group portrait of men and women posing sitting in a classroom and eating. Identified as a classroom in the high school building built in 1897.
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Mexican Day of Independence Celebration

Date: 09 17 1989
Description: A young man and woman are dancing together on a stage. Other dancers and people are sitting at tables in the background. Caption reads: "The La Casa Senior...
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Students and Teacher in Classroom

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Description: A classroom of students at their desks. There is a woman sitting at a sewing machine and another woman sitting at a typewriter near the windows on the righ...

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