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Hawthorne School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Special school children at Hawthorne School posing with their industrial artwork at the front of the classroom.
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Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
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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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West Junior High School Students

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: One West Junior High School student drawing on a U.S. map, with three other students looking on.
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Edgewood Kindergarten in S.S. Roosevelt Ship

Date: 04 17 1934
Description: Edgewood kindergarten posing as captain, crew and passengers in a mock-up of the S.S. Roosevelt ship.
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Draper Kindergarten

Date: 01 11 1933
Description: Draper kindergarten room with children surrounding a "fire engine" they created.
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Marquette School "Grocery Store"

Date: 03 16 1932
Description: Grade 3A at Marquette school playing "grocery store."
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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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Randall School Classroom

Date: 10 29 1931
Description: Randall school first grade classroom with students sitting in a circle. The teacher is also sitting in the circle. Caption reads: "A progressive first grad...
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Third Grade Classroom

Date: 06 05 1931
Description: "Japanese project being developed in a 3rd grade Madison Public Schools." Overall view of students and teacher in a Dudgeon School classroom.
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Dudgeon School Sand Table Group

Date: 11 24 1930
Description: Dudgeon school sand table group. Five children are sitting and standing beside the farm scene they created.
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Switzerland Model

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Three girls are standing beside a model they constructed of Switzerland on a table at Randall School.
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Students and Teacher in New Classroom

Date: 01 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Carol Massen, kindergarten teacher, working with her kindergarten class in a new classroom space. The classroom was part of an addition that included ...
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 09 24 1944
Description: Children participating in a thimble party at the Shorewood Hills School while their mothers participated in the annual Madison Woman's Club benefit party. ...
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Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers Convention

Date: 04 10 1956
Description: Fifth grade school students make menu covers for the Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers Convention. They are seen with adults Roberta Larsen, art t...
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Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook

Date: 1906
Description: Informal portrait of Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook seated at a desk in front of a classroom full of students.
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Students at Their Desks

Date: 1933
Description: Students sitting at their desks with their books open at Potter School, District No. 3. Magazines and newspapers hang on a line strung against the back wal...
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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Students at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room.
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The School Children at Dinner

Date: 1932
Description: Students at the New Fane school pose in the classroom during lunch time. Some of the children hold cookies or sandwiches. On several of the desks there are...

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