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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Sun Prairie Freshman Class

Date: 1914
Description: Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image.
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Wipe Out Discrimination

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Description: Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc...
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Students and Teacher in Classroom

Date: 1946
Description: A man stands behind a table and addresses a teacher in a classroom at International Harvester's Education and Training Center. The teacher sits beside an e...
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: Chef Instructor Eldred Heiser looking on as student William Moran of Boscobel is slicing a leg of veal for noon lunch at the newly-opened Restaurant Instit...
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Connecticut Hall of Yale University

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Description: Engraving of Connecticut Hall, Yale's first permanent building, completed in 1752. The engraving shows a front view of the original Yale building, and a fe...
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Clarion State Normal School

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Description: Interior of a library at Clarion State Normal School, established in 1873. Men and women read at tables and choose books from shelves.
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State Normal School Gymnasium

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Description: Composite image including children performing exercises inside a gymnasium and an inset drawing of the exterior of the State Normal School. Text at bottom...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Ruth Allcott (center) is shown with new art teachers, James MacLeahlan and Irene Harff.
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Public School

Date: 1921
Description: View up hill of two men standing at the entrance of the public school. There is a hand-pump near the entrance, and a bell tower on the roof of the school.
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Main Street and Washington State College

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Description: View of Main Street, featuring shops, cars, and carriages. Washington State College, founded in 1890, can be seen on a hilltop beyond the street.
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North Vietnam School

Date: 1967
Description: Kindergarten classroom in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa, showing the ditch in the center of the room that ran to the air raid shelter. Two men sta...
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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Aldo Leopold taken outdoors by his wife. He is wearing a suit and tie. A window, shrubs and a window box are behind him.
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Obey and Madison

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey (right) and his home secretary Jerry Madison, also a Wausau history teacher, traveling in the district on an airplane.
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Press Interview with Senator Joseph McCarthy

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC...
Postcard

High School Fire

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Description: Photographic postcard view of firemen fighting a high school fire. A small crowd of people are watching from the street.
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Black River Falls Elementary School

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Description: Outdoor view, in stereograph form, of the elementary school in Black River Falls. A group of faculty are gathered on the stairs and in the second story win...
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University of Wisconsin Histological Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of a histological laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of students, men and women, are sitting around two tables in fro...
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Man on a Ladder

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Description: A man is posing standing sideways on a ladder holding a bucket in front of a brick building and a window. The building is identified as the school building...
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Baptist Sunday School Class

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a large group of children posing outside a house, with two women in the background inside of the house looking out of a large window. I...

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