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Teacher and Girls Looking at Chart

Date: 10 12 1935
Description: Teacher and two girls looking at rat growth chart.
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International Harvester Farm Exhibit

Date: 06 1975
Description: Students from Chicago's Cyrus McCormick School viewing a replica of the original McCormick Reaper at the International Harvester exhibit at the Chicago Mus...
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First graders at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students admire kittens and ...
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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 five students in Mrs. Hele...
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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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Lincoln School Fourth Graders

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Two fourth graders at Lincoln School, Freddiemae Hill, left, and Russell Allen, Jr, right, are observing 10,000 bees that are preparing for winter in their...
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Caged Turkey at Longfellow School

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Six Longfellow School kindergarten students admiring a turkey in a cage. They named the turkey "Cindy" as they learned about turkeys as part of their schoo...
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Dudgeon School Students

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Johnny Rengstorff looks for a missing hamster near a piano, while Danny Steihl, Susan Lorenz and Phillip Johnson watch. Judy Erb examines the hamster's cag...
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Student with Pet Hamster

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: Helen Drotning is holding Scratch II, a new pet hamster who succeeds the pet hamster who escaped from its cage at Dudgeon School a week earlier. The class ...
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Washington School Children with Pupppies

Date: 03 30 1949
Description: Two children pose with puppies found at Washington School. On the left is Nancy Anderson, 19 N. Broom Street. On the right is Johnny Melby, 519 W. Washing...
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Washington School Hobby Show

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: At left, Billy Powers of 306 Norris Court shows his butterfly collection to classmate Dennis Rose, 1028 Clymer Place. The butterfly collection won first p...
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Opossum at Lincoln School

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: Three girls from Lincoln School pose with an opossum that escaped from its cage. The students are, left to right, Nancy Hagen, Jean Diane Gutzman, and Jane...
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Lapham School Nativity Play

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: Lapham School Nativity play "Small One" is an yearly student Christmas production. "Mary" was played by Jean Loy, 943 East Dayton Street, rode Small One (d...
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Guinea Pig

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Randall school student John Drake, wearing a Boy Scout uniform, holding his classroom's newborn guinea pig named "Mix-Up, Jr."
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Pet Rooster

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Barbara Scholidon posing with her 1-year-old pet rooster. She had brought the chicken home from a Lapham School project that hatched twelve chicks from an ...
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Student's Earth Day Art

Date: 1970
Description: Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of a sun with a smiling face surrounded by a field of blue filled with birds an...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...

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