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Country Dale School Classroom

Date: 11 25 1966
Description: In a view from beneath a television stand, seventh grade students are listening to a lecture in their classroom at Country Dale school.
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Female Student Daydreams at Desk

Date: 1929
Description: Adolescent schoolgirl Miss Genivieve Graves seems to be daydreaming at her school desk.
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Students Taking ASTP Exam

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Senior male students taking ASTP examination in West High School Cafeteria, Ash and Regent Streets. ASTP was the Army Specialized Training Program to train...
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Emerson School Card Party

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Emerson school card party, training in social poise, Home Economics Department, Madison Public Schools.
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East High School Classroom

Date: 03 26 1931
Description: Tower Times staff at work in an East High School classroom.
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East High School Orchestra on Stage

Date: 03 10 1930
Description: East High School, orchestra on stage.
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Third Grade Class

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Description: The third grade class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Woman Teaching Art Class

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Description: An art class being taught by a woman at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wrig...
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Boy Scout Receiving the Ad Altare Dei Medal

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: A boy scout receiving the Ad Altare Dei medal, the Catholic Church's award to boy scouts, from Bishop William P. O'Connor. Another boy scout and three othe...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum, Evansville, front row left, sits with other students attending a music appreciation class at the University of Wisconsin high school music cli...
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Madison Newspaper Carriers

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carrier boys, participants in the journal's annual subscription contest. Taken in Felly's re...
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Governor's Youth Advisory Board

Date: 04 24 1953
Description: Youth advisory board, a part of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights. Standing, left to right, are: David Willette, Chippewa Falls; Richard Rosenweig,...
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Newspaper Carriers' Breakfast

Date: 04 05 1956
Description: Madison Newspaper carrier boys were treated to breakfast at Felly's Restaurant at 927 South Park Street. Shown clockwise from lower left are: Michael Riede...
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Vogue Fashion Show for Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Beverly Richels, a student at Madison East High School, participates in the Vogue fashion show designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew. She mode...
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Baseball Team with School Bus

Date: 1970
Description: Men and boys in baseball uniforms walk out of a dugout to board a Wayne school bus parked inside a baseball stadium.
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Class Portrait of Second Grade at Pettit School

Date: 02 04 1918
Description: Class portrait at Pettit School, also known as Saint Raphael's School. Thomas O'Dea is sitting in the 1st row of desks, 3rd from the left. All of the stude...
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PTA Council Panelists

Date: 10 28 1960
Description: Panelists gather for the Madison City PTA Council's "Panel of Americans" program. On the left is Prof. Arthur P. Miles of the UW department of social work ...
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Two-way Speaker Connects School and Home

Date: 02 15 1961
Description: An East High School English class is shown with the addition of a two-way speaker box connecting homebound student Jerry Novick to his class.
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023 - Dining Porch at Mealtime

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Description: Interior view of campers and counselors eating on Dining Porch. Original caption notes: "Our dining Porch runs the whole length of the Main Lodge, and enjo...

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