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Lincoln School "Ranch Hands"

Date: 10 08 1949
Description: Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb...
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Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 10 21 1952
Description: A Shorewood schoolgirl puts on her coat following dancing class.
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 11 21 1952
Description: Five students, some from Randall School, at a Shorewood School dancing class.
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Rose Sun

Date: 07 06 1945
Description: Portrait of Rose Sun, University of Wisconsin coed and granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Republic. She came to Madison for summer school...
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Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson

Date: 08 13 1945
Description: Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson. Elizabeth will be attending the Potter School in Tucson, Arizona. Hobart will return to the Middlesex School in Conco...
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Four College Students

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Group portrait of Dorothy Swan, Katherine Knaplund, Nancy Morehouse, and Virginia Samp. All will be attending Eastern colleges.
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Three Women with Formal Dress

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Shown left to right are: Judith Tormey, Florence Crowley, and holding a formal dress, Kathleen Kellogg. They are students at Rosary College.
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University of Wisconsin Women's Style Show

Date: 03 26 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self-Government Association style show "Confetti of Fashion" with ten models in formal dress. Standing, left to right: Bett...
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University of Wisconsin Women's Style Show

Date: 03 26 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self Government Association style show "Confetti of Fashion" committee members watching a rehearsal. Jean Kerth, standing, ...
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Girl Signaling During Bicycle Riding Test

Date: 03 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, a girl in a flowered skirt, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is al...
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Doll Collection

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: Two Washington school students looking at a doll collection belonging to Judy Maher that is on display at the school. The girls are Karen Love and Janice J...
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Two Randall School Students

Date: 04 15 1948
Description: Two Randall School students admiring a picture of a Pilgrim and another of George Washington made by Randall school third graders and displayed on an easel...
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Randall School Teacher and Two Students

Date: 04 15 1948
Description: Mrs. Everett (Helen) Holterman, Randall School teacher, and student Nancy Hoff, look on as classmate Lonny Koff points out the country of Norway on a world...
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph students are watching a "m...
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Nakoma School Class

Date: 05 06 1948
Description: Teacher Mary Kier, fourth grade teacher at Nakoma Elementary School, 3870 Nakoma Road, stands at the blackboard demonstrating a handwriting technique to he...
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Nakoma School Class

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Left-handed students in Mary Kier's fourth grade class at Nakoma Elementary School, 3780 Nakoma Road, show how easy it is to write "just like everyone else...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
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Central High School Musicians

Date: 05 20 1948
Description: Central high school musicians pose while rehearsing for a city wide concert by the bands, orchestras and choruses of East, West, Central and Wisconsin high...
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Rural Schools Eighth Grade Commencement

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Eighth grade students from Dane County rural schools attending a mass commencement ceremony at Madison West High School auditorium. The ceremony was part o...

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