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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Tuskegee Institute Machine Shop

Date: 1902
Description: The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop.
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Vending Machines

Date: 04 20 1967
Description: High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Two East High School students, Raymond Grinde and Kenneth Roll, working on a cane head in the metals class. The canes are given to disabled veterans.
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Charence L. Greiber with World War II Veteran

Date: 04 12 1945
Description: Clarence L. Greiber, Director of the Wisconsin State Board of Vocational and Adult Education, with Lester Morrisey, a discharged World War II veteran, show...
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Hudson Auto Co. "Motor School"

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Hudson Auto Co., 1134 E. Washington Avenue, holding a "motor school" to teach the use of Sun diagnostic equipment. Group of men in background, and front e...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: John Reuter, veteran and student, working at a milling machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street.
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Apprentice Classroom at McCormick Works

Date: 1949
Description: A group of young men receive instruction in the apprentice classroom at McCormick Works.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week.
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Madison Vocational School Homecraft Program

Date: 04 24 1951
Description: An unidentified man sits at a jig saw making a bird house while receiving instruction in woodworking as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home...
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Louisiana State University

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Description: A view of various machines arranged within the experimental mechanical laboratory at Louisiana State University. Caption reads: "Experimental Mechanical La...
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Power Sewing Class

Date: 01 16 1967
Description: Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin...
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Shoe Rebuilding Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Machine Typesetting Class

Date: 03 21 1961
Description: Students work on linotype machines in a typesetting class at Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Student with Drilling Machine

Date: 12 20 1961
Description: A student at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools operates a drill press.
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"Milwaukee Journal" Tour Group

Date: 12 08 1931
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of Oconomowoc High School students on a tour at the "Milwaukee Journal." They are viewing the newspaper's presses in oper...
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Machine Shop Instruction

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Description: An older man appears to be giving another man instruction in a machine shop. The caption on the back of the print reads, "Diabetes Couldn't Fight The Kaise...
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Exhibit Room

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of the exhibit room in the Milwaukee School of Trades.

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