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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school. |
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| Description: | Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise. |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 06 1916 |
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| Description: | Six girls in a running race at the School Festival in Palos Park. |
| Date: | 06 1916 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Dolton School Boys Band. Original caption reads: "Dolton School Boys Band who furnished the music throughout the day for the ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young girl sitting on a stool holding a rooster in her lap, in front of Sunnyside School. The girl was participating in a third year "living ... |
| Date: | 08 1933 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Kankakee High School band that is playing in the background as a crowd gathers around International Harvester exhibits at the... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Young John Bollenbach standing in the middle of a garden, identified as his "Cook County school-home project." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a coat and hat standing on a sidewalk while delivering newspapers to nearby homes. Attached to his newspaper bag is a sign reading: "Cook Cou... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of female students relaxing in the reception room at Holy Family Academy. Some sit in groups while others read magazines. Furnishings consist mainly... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on fro... |
| Date: | 06 1916 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults, some holding American flags and Cook County banners, standing in a field to watch events at the Cook County School Festival... |
| Date: | 06 1916 |
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| Description: | A group of girls performing a flag drill during a School Festival as a crowd of adults and children look on. Three boys are standing on the left playing mu... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Female students working in a sewing class taught by Miss Catherine Mulvey. Original caption reads, "Miss Mulvey teaches the primary grades, but on Friday a... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Large group of students and teachers gathered in a circle to watch young girls winding the maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. |
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