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Inch School

Date: 1898
Description: Students and teachers pose in front of Inch School.
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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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Auto Mechanics Class

Date: 11 27 1934
Description: Auto Mechanics Class at East High School. The students left to right are Raymond Cattell, Leif Breiby, Clarence Elsa, Leslie Hoppe, and instructor Orian Dh...
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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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Alfalfa for the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1951
Description: Irving Gerhardt, instructor of Vocational Agriculture, and Duane Lehr, Future Farmers of America member and agriculture student from Madison East High Scho...
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Cherokee School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Male teacher and a student bowing to one another at the beginning of a dance at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
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Child Salon of Art Winner with John Steuart Curry

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a...
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: O.I. Dhein, instructor, with East High School shop students Bob Somerville, Carl Carlson and Francis Lockman working on the aluminum heads for canes they w...
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W...
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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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Loyal Temperance League Group

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Description: A group of Wisconsin Loyal Temperance League children and their teacher. The LTL was a branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union that focused on th...
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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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All-State Band Concert

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: Dave Cartwright, Helen Hurd, and Mary Rose Gallagher are standing with Frederick C. Ebbs, conductor of the All-State band concert. The students have been a...
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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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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Three junior high school students, recipients of a 1949 summer scholarship, pose with their teacher near an exhibit of the students' watercolor sketches. S...

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