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Nakoma School Class
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Left-handed students in Mary Kier's fourth grade class at Nakoma Elementary School, 3780 Nakoma Road, show how easy it is to write "just like everyone else." Philip Gottschalk in the first row and Richard Beck in the third row demonstrate the technique. (The right-handed girl in the second row is not identified.)
April 6, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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