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Atomic Energy

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Description: Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy.
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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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German Class

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Description: A woman teaching a German 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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Vera Pay, Exchange Teacher from London

Date: 09 17 1948
Description: Vera Pay, right, exchange teacher from London, England, is shown instructing four Emerson school physical education 6th grade girls who are wearing gym clo...
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Magdalina Sara Jungck, as a School Teacher

Date: 1905
Description: Magdalina Sara Jungck, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a school teacher, lashing a boy student over a desk. Part of a yearbo...
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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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Teacher and Students on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Students and teacher lined up outside a school building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "School teacher and...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 09 25 1949
Description: Esther T. Carswell, an art teacher at Central Junior High School, works with Dennis Herfel and Anne Holm as they make Halloween decorations for patients at...
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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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YWCA Winter Activities

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Instructor Patricia Patterson, 621 North Frances Street, teaches the correct technique for the side stroke to Alice Well, 2 Langdon Street, who is seated o...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste...
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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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Culling Demonstration

Date: 05 1919
Description: A group of individuals are gathered outdoors to examine chickens during a culling demonstration conducted by Professor Carrick of Purdue University.
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Testing Milk

Date: 1920
Description: Group of agriculture students testing milk with teacher Gladys M. Smith at the Maplewood School.
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Boys Learning to Sew

Date: 1913
Description: Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
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Youth Basketball Team

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of boys and girls dressed in basketball uniforms with teachers outside a gymnasium (at right) at the Woldale Rural School.
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Graduating Class at Morton Grove

Date: 1913
Description: Graduating class of Mrs. Agnes Ryan Page (center).
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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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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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