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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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Sewing Class

Date: 1898
Description: From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J...
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Dudgeon School Classroom

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: An Indian unit being developed in the 2B classroom at Dudgeon School. A teepee is standing in front of the class.
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Young Boy with Lunch Box on School Grounds

Date: 05 1928
Description: A young boy holding a lunch box has his hand on his head while standing on the grounds of Viall School.
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Young Girls Playing on School Swing

Date: 05 1928
Description: Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School.
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Mock Convention

Date: 11 01 1968
Description: A mock presidential political convention at a middle school.
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Unidentified Group Portrait

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Description: Slightly elevated view of an unidentified group of children and adults in front of a building. Possibly a school.
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Boy Throwing Ball

Date: 05 1928
Description: Young boy throwing a ball on the grounds of the Viall School, Cook County, Illinois.
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Boy's Quartet, Franklin School

Date: 06 25 1935
Description: Group portrait of boy's vocal quartet at Franklin School, Lakeside Street.
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Two Xylophonists at Emerson School

Date: 02 27 1935
Description: Two xylophonists playing at Emerson School Gymnasium.
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Kiddie Camp Children

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n...
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Children Making Furniture

Date: 10 18 1933
Description: Large group of children making orange crate furniture at Hawthorne School, 216 Division Street. Activities include sawing and hammering.
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Lifebuoy Soap Dancers, Wheeler School of Dance

Date: 05 25 1933
Description: Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne He...
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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Children at Dudgeon Playground

Date: 06 16 1932
Description: Group portrait of children who attended the Dudgeon School summer playground program, and their director Cornella Krings, at Duck Pond, Nakoma.
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Fourth Grade Class at Washington School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Rear view of a fourth grade class at Washington School, 217 N. Broom Street, at work in the classroom. Caption reads: "A Fourth Grade at Work. Madison Publ...
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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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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults are sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.
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Junior Hunt Club on Horseback

Date: 10 26 1930
Description: Seven children and two adults sitting on horses in front of the Blackhawk Riding Academy, 1019 Conklin Place.

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