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Smokey Bear with Girl

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub with Judy Bell in front of a fire-prevention poster featuring the character for whom the young bear was named.
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Registration at the Health Center

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Description: Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health.
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Class for Mothers

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Description: A health care worker is instructing two mothers how to select shoes and stockings for their children. On the wall is a poster on clothing and shoes.
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Young Students Holding Books

Date: 1939
Description: Two young students holding books in their kindergarten classroom next to a piano. The young girl is posed seated on a piano bench and holding an open book....
Photograph

Rural Teachers Learn Woodworking and Rope Tying

Date: 08 1919
Description: Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope.
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Group of Women Learning Woodworking

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ...
Postcard

Six Men and a Goat

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of six men, three standing and three sitting. On the left is a goat. Attached to the painted backdrop, a poster for the Calumet...
Photograph

Demonstrating Infant Care at Neighborhood House

Date: 1929
Description: View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin...
Photograph

School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 10 1953
Description: Cynthia Gelman and Sidney Tallard, children in Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, stand on chairs while inspecting a Thanksgiving poster on the nursery sch...
Photograph

Girl Standing Against Wooden Building

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Description: View towards a small girl posing standing on a wooden walkway against the front of a wooden building. Above her is a sign that reads, in part: "Judge Taft....
Photograph

Children Holding Birdhouses

Date: 1917
Description: Outdoor group portrait of children standing in front of the Standard School. Each child is holding a birdhouse in their hands, and four of the children is ...
Photograph

Dance Week

Date: 04 27 1958
Description: Members of the Madison Civic Dance Guild are shown rehearsing "En Bateau" from Debussy's "Petite Suite", which is a part of the Young People's matinee conc...
Poster

What are Your Taxes Buying in El Salvador?

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl...

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