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Language Lab Reel-To-Reel Tape Machines

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College.
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East High School German Club

Date: 03 05 1930
Description: East High School German Club.
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Jean Meunier Keith

Date: 05 24 1955
Description: Jean Meunier Keith (Mrs. Jack Keith), who was presented with a book as an honorable mention prize in the annual Hugh A. Smith award for excellence in Frenc...
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Professor Eduardo Neale-Silva

Date: 08 07 1944
Description: Portrait of Eduardo Neale-Silva, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in Talca, Chile, in 1905, and became a res...
Map or Atlas

Daearlen o Wisconsin at Wasanaeth Bwrdd ymfudiant y Dalaeth

Date: 1870
Description: A geological survey map of Wisconsin, with hand-colored portions showing the surveys completed from 1873 to 1875. Although the title and legend are in Wel...
Photograph

YWCA Benefit Tea

Date: 05 25 1956
Description: Assistant hostesses at the YWCA benefit tea for internationally speaking foreign students are left to right: Nan Rasmussen, Linda Bacon, Evelyn Gaumnitz an...
Map or Atlas

Nordamerikanische Freistaat Wisconsin nach den neuesten Vermessungen

Date: 1849
Description: Published in Germany a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows prairies, swamps, lakes, mounds, limestone deposits, and lead and copper mine...
Map or Atlas

Map of Nationalities in Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I...
Map or Atlas

Map of Clark and Wood Counties with a portion of Marathon County, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Map shows roads, railroads, rivers, and improved farms. Includes text on lands for sale and exchange by B.W. Pulling, successor to Marshfield Land Company....
Document

Toechter Institut

Date: 1864
Description: Information about the Toechter Institut in Milwaukee.
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. Sister Catheri...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. William Hein i...
Photograph

"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
Photograph

"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
Photograph

"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Germania

Date: 06 18 1873
Description: Front page of the inaugural issue of Milwaukee German language newspaper Germania.
Document

"Attention Workers"

Date: 11 1902
Description: A card announcing Emma Goldmann as the speaker at a meeting, written in German. Emma Goldmann was an anarchist known for her activism. Black ink, printed l...
Poster

Ein offener Brief an sämmtliche Bürger von Sheboygan County [An open letter to the citizens of Sheboygan County]

Date: 1918
Description: Poster reproducing an open letter from Walter Kohler on behalf of the Sheboygan County Liberty Loan Committee, to the citizens of Sheboygan County, informi...
Photograph

German Language Instruction

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: A woman and three children appear to be speaking in unison. In the foreground, another woman is gesturing and pointing to a piece of paper. Caption reads: ...

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