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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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Mrs. Buehler and Music Teachers

Date: 04 30 1933
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Buehler sitting at a piano surrounded by eleven women teachers of the Extension Division of the Wisconsin School of Music, 202 W. Gilman Str...
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Lowell School Women's Soccer Baseball Team

Date: 03 28 1933
Description: Group portrait of Lowell school women's championship soccer baseball team in uniform.
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Lapham School Radio Room

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. T...
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Gerke Twins

Date: 1940
Description: Twin sisters Julie & Juliet Gerke, students at the Kehl School of Dance, posed in matching, Kehl-designed clothing--including hats, jackets, short skirts, ...
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 11 21 1952
Description: John Curtis asks Patty Parsons to dance with him at a Shorewood School dancing class.
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Cottage Grove Grade School Style Show

Date: 04 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of twenty school children and youth wearing clothing from the Emporium Department Store featured in the Cottage Grove Grade School Style Sho...
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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Sharon Lutz and her father square dancing at the Marquette school family fun night.
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Recreation at Franklin School

Date: 03 23 1949
Description: Merle Manion, 8th grader, completing a 'running flip' at Franklin School.
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Pupils of the 2nd Ward School

Date: 1882
Description: A group portrait of students at the 2nd Ward School. The students are posing in front of the building, with girls in the front (straw hats on laps), boys i...
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Boys Boarding Bus

Date: 02 12 1935
Description: Boys wearing winter coats and hats are lining up in the snow to board an International school bus parked in front of Hershey Industrial School. All the boy...
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YMCA Boys Basketball School

Date: 11 30 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin basketball coach Harold "Bud" Foster talks with three boys about the first annual YMCA boys basketball school. The boys are, from l...
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Blessed Sacrament Grade School Basketball Champions

Date: 02 17 1951
Description: Group portrait of the Blessed Sacrament Grade School basketball team, champions of the Parochial League for 1951 with their principal, Father Schneider, at...
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Young Ballet Dancers

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Portrait of three ballet dancers, pupils at the Kehl School of the Dance, in costume. They include, from left: Marcia Bartholomew, 4; Johnny Nania, 4; and ...
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Young Ballet Dancer

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Mary Ellen Richards, age 5, poses while tying her ballet slippers. She is a pupil at the Kehl School of Dance.
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Young Ballet Dancers

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Three ballet dancers, pupils of the Kathryn Hubbard Dance Studio, practice ballet positions at the bar. They are, from left: Susan Barth, Rebecca Drescher,...
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Young Tap Dancers

Date: 02 11 1952
Description: Two tap dancers, students at the Kehl School of Dance, do a tap dancing routine. At left is Jeannie Ales, 4, and right, Sandra Parman, 5, Mazomanie.
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
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Women and Children at Drinking Fountain

Date: 1916
Description: A woman, possibly a school instructor, is standing near two children as they wait in line to use a drinking fountain.
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Timber Hitch Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: Two girls standing on the wooden porch of a schoolhouse holding ropes attached with timber hitch knots to a piece of wood on which a girl is sitting. Other...

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