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Fine Sewing and Lace Making

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Description: Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded.
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Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries, on the first floor at 502 State Street, in the former Branch Bank of Wisconsin building.
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Women at Table

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Description: Five women are sitting at a table set for perhaps a Valentine's Day party. The setting was likely a Home Economics project for the women at the Northern Wi...
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba...
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Typing Class

Date: 1939
Description: Interior view of a classroom with young men and women learning about, and working on, typewriters.
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Class in Accounting Principles

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Description: A University Extension Accounting class posing in the classroom, with men standing and women seated. Included are Berhart, Jackson, Ollinger, Stewart, Keit...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Matt Esser is learning how to weave under Mrs. Mina Dutton's direction. Mrs. Dutton is one of the instructors at the Wisconsin Homecraft Training center, ...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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Continuation School Apprentice Class

Date: 04 17 1913
Description: Students at work in their Milwaukee continuation school apprentice class, which is through the University Extension Division in Madison.
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Violette Wartzok

Date: 02 11 1954
Description: Violette Wartzok demonstrates a procedure in the drapery-making class at the Madison Vocational and Adult School.
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Three student nurses from three Madison hospitals get together to 'talk shop' at the convention. Left to right are Barbara Gee, University Hospitals, Mary ...
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Home Economics

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Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Easter Seal Drive

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Twenty-one vocational school commerce pupils who volunteered to stuff 50,000 Easter seal letters are shown working.
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Madison Vocational School Furniture Upholstering Class

Date: 04 25 1951
Description: Barbara and Howard Vindedahl tack upholstery onto their renovated chair in an upholstery class at Madison Vocational School.
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St. Mary's Hospital Emergency Program Demonstrations

Date: 09 28 1961
Description: Three nurses demonstrating a rescue maneuver on a volunteer during a two-day instructional program on emergency procedures at St. Mary's hospital.
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 10 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Albert Koerth

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Albert Koerth, 123 Van Deusen Street, making toys and repairing furniture for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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St. Mary's Hospital Emergency Program Demonstrations

Date: 09 28 1961
Description: Members of St. Mary's hospital nursing staff watch as techniques to be used during emergencies are demonstrated during a two-day instructional program at t...

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