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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School....
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Vocational School Class

Date: 01 08 1915
Description: Young men sitting in class at the Continuation School.
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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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School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Division Class

Date: 1919
Description: Men in a University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Division class under Professor Consoliner. This appears to be an engineering class.
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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Bulgarian Peasants

Date: 1915
Description: Bulgarian peasants attend school to learn American methods of corn culture.
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Judging Butter

Date: 07 1915
Description: Group of men, perhaps participants in a University of Wisconsin short course, tasting butter.
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Science Hall Classroom

Date: 1910
Description: Cyanotype view of University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Hall classroom.
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: The Medical Inspection of School Children

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ...
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Fennimore Grades Educational Exhibit

Date: 1913
Description: Classroom exhibiting students' work, including drawings.
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Pythian Orphans' Home

Date: 1911
Description: A view from the back of a classroom of desks, a globe, and a map of Texas at Pythian Orphans' Home. Caption reads: "Class Room."
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Teachers Learning Rope Tying

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women, probably teachers, seated inside a schoolroom learning various rope tying. Original caption reads: "Fourth Normal School District.....
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Demonstration on Rope Tying

Date: 1919
Description: Rope tying demonstration for a group of rural school teachers. Original caption reads: "County Supt. Tobin, Country Life Director, and rural school teacher...
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Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.
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Students Making a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two young boys on the floor of a room, probably a classroom, nailing mesh screening to the frame of their fly trap.
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Empty Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of an empty classroom in rural school. Original caption reads: "No city school can excel this two-roomed school... Miss McMahon, teacher."
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Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...
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Rural School Room

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of a school room at Mohegan Lake Public School, filled with rows of desks, an organ, and several chalkboards. The text on the chalkboard read...
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Presentation at Pleasant View School

Date: 1917
Description: A group of men and women gathered inside Pleasant View Rural School to listen to an agricultural extension presentation given by Professor Holden.

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