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Computer Assisted Learning

Date: 05 1998
Description: As part of his support for education, Congressman David Obey visited many schools within his district. Here he observed elementary school students in Wisco...
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Genevieve Milward

Date: 06 1921
Description: Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
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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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
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Night School for Men at Neighborhood House

Date: 1921
Description: Groups of men, most dressed in suits and ties, sitting at small tables, looking at books. A few female teachers, including one in the foreground, are also ...
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Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook

Date: 1906
Description: Informal portrait of Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook seated at a desk in front of a classroom full of students.
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Press Interview with Senator Joseph McCarthy

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC...
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The School at Work

Date: 1933
Description: Glady Hofseth, the teacher at Eagle Corners School, sits with a small group of students at the front of the classroom while the other students work at thei...
Postcard

Room 2, Public School

Date: 1911
Description: Students are posing sitting sideways at their desks in the classroom for a group portrait. The teacher is standing in the back near a door.
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Graduation

Date: 1929
Description: Seven pupils graduating from the Mayo School, District No. 1, posing sitting in a row in their classroom. The room has been decorated with flowers, crepe p...
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Group of Students

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of four women, seated in front of three men, all unidentified. The women wear high-collared white blouses and long dark skirts. The men wear...
Photograph

Teacher and Student

Date: 1965
Description: A white volunteer teaches a young African-American boy at a desk in front of a bookcase. Used in a brochure with the title, 'SNCC Summer 1965.'
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School Banquet at Hotel Hillsboro

Date: 1930
Description: Group portrait of attendees of the Hillsboro High School's Junior-Senior Banquet at the Hillsboro Hotel. Attendees include students and their guests. The i...
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Class at Agricultural School

Date: 1907
Description: Students read attentively in one of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy's classrooms. The male students are dressed in dark sui...
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Freddie Mae Hill

Date: 1928
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African-American resident of Madison to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison H...
Photograph

Portrait of a Woman Graduate

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Description: A young woman is posing in an upholstered chair in front of a cloth backdrop for her graduation portrait. She is wearing a mortar board with a tassel, a da...
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William H. Church with his Schoolteacher

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of William H. Church with his schoolteacher, both sitting and facing forward. The man on the right has his arm around the shoulder of...
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William F. Gray, David E. Kiser, William D. Lamont, and Henry Chappel

Date: 06 19 1886
Description: Ferrotype/tintype portrait of three students with their principal, taken in a studio in front of a painted backdrop, the day after their high school gradua...

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