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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Gross Anatomy

Date: 1902
Description: Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor...
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartoonist Walt Kelly at Central High School with a person dressed as one of his characters, Pogo. He is showing a drawing to a group of students.
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Vocational School Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. Margot Nelson, the teacher, is showing students Bertha Haack and Josephine Scheerer the technique of stuffing the body cavity of a turkey at a Vocatio...
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Monona Grove High School Students

Date: 12 10 1956
Description: Monona Grove High School students, David Thuesen and Gene Kleinsmith, making Christmas decorations and cards.
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Vocational School Aptitude Testing

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Two students, Stanley Stemp Jr., Central High School, and Victor Brockmiller Jr., West High School, assemble mechanical devices as part of the vocational a...
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Aileen Brewer and Students

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Description: Aileen Brewer going over paperwork with two students at Edisto Island Citizenship Schools.
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Thelma Mothershed Reading a Book

Date: 1957
Description: Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book.
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Longfellow School Third and Fourth Graders

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is...
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Wisconsin High School Students

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Barbara Doig, Marjorie Swanson, and Don Damon, Wisconsin High School students who are taking part in a drive to help young people in Europe.
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Madison Lutheran School Spelling Champion

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: Barbara North of 1003 Jenifer Street, the spelling champion of the Madison Lutheran School, sits at a desk while reading a newspaper. A dictionary lies ope...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Blanche Mitchell reading to her second grade students at Lowell School. She is one of many teachers who are members of the Madison Business and Professiona...
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West High School Girls' English Club

Date: 03 28 1951
Description: Three members of the Girls' English Club of West High School examine clothing donated to the annual clothing drive. From left are Nancy Fay, Pam Patterson...
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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Jim Studee, left, and Gordon Jenkins, students in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, build a television set. ...
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Speaking for Democracy Speech Contest

Date: 11 14 1951
Description: Portrait of two of the winners in the "Speaking for Democracy" speech contest for high school students. At the left is Norman Barton, West High School, fou...
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Maren Hetland

Date: 03 26 1952
Description: Spelling champions from twenty-three Madison public and parochial schools will take part in the city spelling finals of the Wisconsin State Journal ...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of eight finalists in the Badger Spelling Bee. First row, l to r: Kay Krogem, Jefferson, 8th place; Champion Beth Knope, Madison; Beverly H...
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Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.

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