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Carrie Lane

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa.
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Irene Larkin

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Description: Cased albumen print of Irene Larkin, a school teacher. Bust figure facing right, wearing a choker, necklace, and a cross at her lace collar. She has a bow ...
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Ellen Lloyd Jones

Date: 1898
Description: Ellen Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Nell), co-founder of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin.
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Professor Edward Ross in Tahiti

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of Professor Ross and five friends in native dress in Tahiti. Two of the people are sitting on a stack of logs, with a cat sitting between t...
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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Tailoring at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Helen Johnson, tailoring instructor, and Mrs. Edwin (Gertrude) Johnson, student, at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll St...
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Vera McCampbell Testifying

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Description: Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d...
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Nellie Maxwell

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Description: Portrait of Farmers' Institute Instructor, Nellie Maxwell. On right border of print the word "WATER" is handwritten, vertically.
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Ellen Clara Sabin

Date: 04 08 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a studio backdrop of Ellen Clara Sabin, Milwaukee teacher and administrator.
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Woman Assembling Nail Box with Teacher

Date: 08 1919
Description: A woman, probably a teacher, is standing at a work bench outdoors nailing together a nail box. Her instructor, identified by original caption as Mr. Shephe...
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Madison Art Foundation

Date: 08 11 1953
Description: Portrait of supporters of the recently incorporated Madison Art Foundation. Philip Falk (left), superintendent of Madison schools, shows a piece of artwork...
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Madison Playground Crafts Program

Date: 08 11 1954
Description: Garland Smith, art supervisor in summer crafts for the Madison board of education summer playground program, stands in front of a display of items made by ...
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Upper Room

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Description: A class picture with four rows posing outdoors, with a stone wall behind them on the left, and a brick wall on the right. In front is a row of boys sitting...
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Marian Violet Metcalf

Date: 1931
Description: Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
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Gladys Hofseth

Date: 1933
Description: The teacher at Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, Gladys Hofseth, poses in front of the school. She is wearing a polka dot dress.
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School Picnic

Date: 06 30 1905
Description: Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha...
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Teacher at Her Desk

Date: 1917
Description: A schoolteacher sits behind her desk, on a raised platform, in a classroom. On her desk is a clock, inkwell, several books, hand bell and a hinged box. In ...
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Dosch Sisters Hold Reunion

Date: 07 13 1960
Description: Seven Dosch sisters, all whom were former teachers in Wisconsin, hold a reunion in Madison at 509 W. Dayton Street. Shown seated (L-R) are: Beulah Dosch E...
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Mora Lincoln and Flower Arrangement

Date: 06 09 1953
Description: Mora Lincoln with one of her flower arrangements. She regularly gives lessons and demonstrations on the art of arranging flowers.

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