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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking 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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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Girls Domestic Science Class

Date: 1909
Description: A class of girls learn how to set a table in domestic science class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P....
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Classroom

Date: 10 06 1971
Description: Early childhood classroom in which two volunteer teachers are instructing children.
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High School Girls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of stylishly dressed girls from a Wisconsin high school posing outdoors.
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Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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Female Pharmacy Students

Date: 1915
Description: A professor checks the progress of several female students in a pharmaceutical laboratory course.
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Curtiss Aviation School Students

Date: 05 1912
Description: The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ...
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"Cottage" Sewing Room

Date: 1884
Description: "Cottage" sewing room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for girls, depicting a class of young girls handling fabrics, sewing, and working with sewing mach...
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School Garden Dedication

Date: 05 1917
Description: Large crowd of school children and adults gathered for a school garden dedication. Original caption reads: "Mr. Prost making a talk at a garden dedication ...
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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Brown Jug School Students

Date: 09 08 1925
Description: Brown Jug School students lined up along a fence outside a school house. One of the boys is wearing a cowboy hat and bandana.
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Holy Redeemer Church, First Holy Communion

Date: 05 17 1942
Description: Group portrait of Holy Communion class, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 140 West Johnson Street.
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Franklin School Eighth Grade Banquet

Date: 06 11 1936
Description: Children are sitting at the eighth banquet tables at the Franklin School, 305 W. Lakeside Street. There are a few adults sitting at the head table in the b...
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Sacred Heart Academy Class Picture

Date: 1925
Description: Sacred Heart Academy (now Edgewood High School) class of 1925 group portrait.
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AFSCME Summer Vacation Institute Class

Date: 06 20 1946
Description: AFSCME American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Summer Vacation Institute class, standing on the steps in front of Delta Tau Delta Fra...
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.

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