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High School Girls at Lathrop Hall

Date: 05 17 1958
Description: Almost 200 girls from 20 Wisconsin high schools took part in a strenuous day of recreation planned by the Women's Physical Education Club at Lathrop Hall a...
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We Saw You . . . Aiding Atwood Avenue Center

Date: 12 13 1958
Description: Member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at the University of Wisconsin took some of their free time to paint and repair at the Atwood Avenue Community Center. C...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Robert Kopp demonstrates meat cutting to Shirley Walberg (intern), Janice Hinze (assistant), and Ruth Dickie (chief dietician) during the hospital dietetic...
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Old and New School Building

Date: 1924
Description: Children play on makeshift seesaws created from construction materials outside the old schoolhouse.
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East High School Automotive Mechanics Class

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Ralph Preez and Bob Mattison are checking a set of headlights.
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East High School Automotive Mechanics Class

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Pictured are Irving Smith with a power driven valve seat grinder, and Bob Koltes checking his work.
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Emerson School Sixth Grade Art Class

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Sixth grade students at Emerson School make lamps in an art class. From left are: Patsy Downs, Wesley Lovejoy, Jerry Ott, and Darlene Butler.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Warren Olsen flipping over a roast in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Jim Pollock serving meatloaf at the school cafeteria in the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Vocational School Cake Decorating Class

Date: 1951
Description: Victor Hammersley, a professional baker and teacher, supervises as Elizabeth Zweifel and Mae Grelle decorate a cake at the Madison Vocational School.
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Arc Welding

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Description: Franklin Fransway receives vocational training in arc welding.
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West Junior High School Girls Making Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Nancy Rieter and Dianne Blanchard, students in the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School, mixing cookie batter. The class baked several...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Neil Nygaard (right) is pouring off the butte...
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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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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Clarence Marty, a student in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, demonstrates how to measure the voltage in a ...
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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Jim Studee, left, and Gordon Jenkins, students in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, build a television set. ...
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First Costume Ball

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Members of Ethlyn Jefferds' dancing class, fifth and sixth grade students from Shorewood, Randall, and Lakewood schools, attending their first costume ball...
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Emerson School Sixth Grade Art Class

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Sixth grade teacher Don Reppen of Emerson School oversees students as they cut a log to be used in making lamps. The students, left to right, are: Don Spri...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Warren Oakes, (left) is churning the cream wi...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Karen Rockney (left) is washing the butter as...

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