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San Padeo Workshop

Date: 1964
Description: Highlander Folk School students and directors standing in a line, possibly singing together, at the San Padeo workshop. Third from left, Myles Horton, Will...
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Milwaukee Public School Board Walk Out

Date: 01 21 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio...
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C.D. Lehman Receiving Certificate

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: C.D. Lehman, superintendent of the State Public School, Sparta, receiving a certificate of service from Herman A. Kloppmann, board president, with A.W. Bay...
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Myles Horton

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Description: Portrait of Myles Horton, cofounder of the Highlander Folk School.
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Claudia Lewis

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Description: Indoor portrait of Claudia Lewis, who started a Nursery School at Highlander Folk School in the early 1930s. She came from the Bank Street School, which he...
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Catherine Winston

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Description: Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette.
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Myles Horton

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Description: Portrait of Myles Horton, founder of Highlander Folk School.
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Menomonie High School Faculty

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of the Menomonie High School Faculty from 1903. Part of a 1905 yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a class prophecy theme.
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Menomonie High School Faculty, 1905

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of the Menomonie High School Faculty from 1905. Part of a 1905 yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a class prophecy theme.
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Boy Signaling During Bicycle Test

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, signaling a left turn, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along S...
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Girl Riding Down Street for Bicycle Test

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School girl student being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spaight Street. A gr...
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School Funding Chart

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer titled In Wisconsin, School Costs Are the Heaviest Burden on General Property Taxpayers published by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities wi...
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Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones

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Description: Cyanotype of sisters Ellen Lloyd Jones (left) and Jane Lloyd Jones who founded and ran Hillside Home School. The women are the aunts of architect Frank Llo...
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Wisconsin School for the Deaf Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wisconsin, with a background image of an elevated view of the school? and surrounding grounds p...
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City of Eau Claire Public Schools Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the City of Eau Claire Public Schools, with a three-quarter view of the High School building, and names of officers of the school district an...
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Glenwood Public Schools Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Glenwood Public Schools, with a three-quarter view of a school building, and names of school officials. Printed in blue ink on memo pad pap...
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Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Seal is on the left. On the right is the name of the sc...
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Ruth Allcott, Art Director of Madison's public schools.
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Mary Lee Griggs and Children with Blocks

Date: 1941
Description: Mary Lee Griggs, head of Parent Education and director of the Play School at Neighborhood House, with Catherine Oliva, Delores Caire, and Sam Moskowsky. Th...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Play School

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director...

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