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Kindergarten Students

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Description: Students gathered closely around their teachers in the kindergarten room on the south end of the school. The open hearth, fireplace, high ceilings and wind...
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Aunt Nell's Room

Date: 1898
Description: Interior shot of Aunt Nell's room at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright...
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Old Library at Hillside Home School

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Description: The old library at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Professor Vasiliev

Date: 10 08 1934
Description: Seated portrait of University of Wisconsin history Professor Alexander A. Vasiliev.
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Phi Sigma Delta Living Room

Date: 10 24 1933
Description: Phi Sigma Delta, 626 North Henry Street, living room. Room features fireplace, Oriental rug, and a grand piano.
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Jessie Chase and Painting

Date: 05 20 1932
Description: Artist Jessie Kalmbach Chase standing near her painting above a fireplace at Lakewood School kindergarten room, 2314 Sherman Avenue. She is the only Madiso...
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Acacia Fraternity 25th Anniversary Banquet

Date: 04 25 1931
Description: Elevated view from balcony of the Acacia Fraternity 25th anniversary banquet.
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Phi Kappa Tau Living Room

Date: 05 28 1930
Description: Phi Kappa Tau living room showing trophys and baby grand piano, 615 North Henry Street.
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Old Library at Hillside Home School

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Description: A woman working in the library at Hillside Home school, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Dykstra House Nursery School

Date: 03 08 1944
Description: Betty Frey, student at the University of Wisconsin, and two children, Geraldine Myers and Barrie Anderson, playing in a nursery school established on the t...
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Three Girls at the LOFT

Date: 11 18 1944
Description: Three girls in front of the fireplace in the Blue Room at the LOFT. The following students are from Wisconsin High School, left to right: Kate Tegge, 149 W...
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College Bound Coeds

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: College bound coeds: Nora Ellen Haley, daughter of John and Marjorie Haley, is going to MacMurray College; Mary Lou Benner, daughter of Arthur and Louise B...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Floyd Ferrill leads a group of handicapped children in a Christmas carol at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West D...
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Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority Members

Date: 02 23 1948
Description: Shown are five members of the University of Wisconsin chapter of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority in the drawing room of the chapter house at 220 Lake Lawn P...
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East High School Play

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: East High School play, "The Goose Hangs High." The production staff is shown setting up for a performance. Pictured left to right: Lois Shoemaker and Margo...
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Lowell School Playroom

Date: 1927
Description: A group of children sit cross-legged on the floor of the kindergarten room at Lowell School. Dorothy Browne is the child sitting in the chair facing them. ...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue.
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Washington Irving High School

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Description: View of the foyer of Washington Irving High School, featuring a large fireplace, designed by the architect C.B.J. Snyder (1860-1945) and built in 1913 Ther...
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Governess for Dousman Family

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Description: Seated full-length portrait of the "French governess for the Dousman family children." On the back of the cabinet card: the imprint of F.W. Guerin, Photogr...

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