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Old Library at Hillside Home School

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Description: The old library at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Washington School Library Class

Date: 10 20 1930
Description: Interior view of the Washington school library class for the 5th and 6th grade.
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Old Library at Hillside Home School

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Description: A woman working in the library at Hillside Home school, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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State Public School Records Room

Date: 1893
Description: Records room at the State Public School. Volumes of "analyzed accounts" are seen in the foreground, and small drawers line the right wall.
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Outdoor Meeting at Highlander School

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Description: A group of people sitting on the grass and chairs outdoors for a meeting with the Highlander Library in the background. From left to right: Father of Myles...
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Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library

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Description: Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library at the Highlander Folk School. The woman in the background is identified as Septima Clark. Koinonia is a far...
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Searching the Card Catalog

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Description: Two women searching through a card catalog, standing in front of a stack of periodicals. Possibly inside the Highlander Folk School Library.
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L.A. Blackman Outside Highlander Library

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Description: L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library.
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Two People Outside of Highlander Library

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Description: A man is reading a book on a bench, while a woman is standing in front of the entrance to the Highlander Library. A small group of people can be seen insid...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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Peter Seeger Playing at Highlander

Date: 1957
Description: Pete Seeger playing the 5-string banjo at the 25th Anniversary of Highlander Folk School in the Library building.
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25th Anniversary of Highlander

Date: 09 02 1957
Description: 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot...
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Hillside Home Building

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Description: The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, de...
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Library Reading Room at Holy Angels School

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Description: Interior of the library reading room at Holy Angels School, established in 1924. A piano stands against the left wall, and busts, figurines, and bookshelve...
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Clarion State Normal School

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Description: Interior of a library at Clarion State Normal School, established in 1873. Men and women read at tables and choose books from shelves.
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Library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of the library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines, established by the Ursuline Sisters, founded in 1845. Bookshelves and windows line th...
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New School Librarians

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Margaret Moss, director of school libraries (second from left), meets with new librarians Marguerite Hasse (Lincioln & Dudgeon Schools), Joan Mundt (Schenk...
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Map of La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1954
Description: This map of La Crosse shows residential, multiple dwelling, local business, commercial, light industrial, heavy industrial and special multiple dwelling la...
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Book Fair at Blessed Sacrament School

Date: 02 08 1960
Description: Two parents preview books to be sold to stock the Blessed Sacrament Catholic School library. Joy Genter (left) and Dorothy Clark consider which books to bu...
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United Nations Workshop

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Description: Five women are sitting and one man is standing in the Highlander Library. The UN Charter is displayed behind them.

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