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Carrie Lane

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa.
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Irene Larkin

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Description: Cased albumen print of Irene Larkin, a school teacher. Bust figure facing right, wearing a choker, necklace, and a cross at her lace collar. She has a bow ...
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Ellen Lloyd Jones

Date: 1898
Description: Ellen Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Nell), co-founder of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin.
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Margarethe Meyer Schurz

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs. Margarethe Meyer Schurz, the first kindergarten teacher in the United States. Caption reads: "Mrs. Carl Schurz First Ki...
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First Aid Kits

Date: 05 09 1955
Description: Seventh grade students putting together first aid kits to have at home.
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Professor Edward Ross in Tahiti

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of Professor Ross and five friends in native dress in Tahiti. Two of the people are sitting on a stack of logs, with a cat sitting between t...
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West High School Girls Basketball Team

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Group portrait of West High School girls basketball team. Seven girls are posing outdoors in street dress.
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Middleton High School Girls Group

Date: 01 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Middleton High School girls group.
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Central High School Girl Tennis Players

Date: 03 21 1929
Description: Group portrait of large group of female tennis players from Central High School.
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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Elizabeth Wickenden

Date: 1960
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Professor Elizabeth Wickenden, professor of urban studies and technical consultant on public social policy to the Nationa...
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People Playing Golf

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Description: People playing golf outside of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Evelyn Brown

Date: 1935
Description: Evelyn Brown of the Kehl School of Dance.
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Madison West High School Students

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Madison West High School students, Austin Munson, 2306 West Lawn Avenue, and Sally Baskerville, 342 Kensington Drive, enjoying sunshine outside the school.
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Central High School Student Council

Date: 01 29 1948
Description: Officers of the Central High School Student Council posed in front of a mural: left to right are Donna Neu, secretary; Coleman Jackson, treasurer; Carl Car...
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Tailoring at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Helen Johnson, tailoring instructor, and Mrs. Edwin (Gertrude) Johnson, student, at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll St...
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Bookkeeping at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Loretta Nelson, a commercial student, practicing on a bookkeeping machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street.

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