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Mr. Schleck Talking on Radio

Date: 10 01 1931
Description: Emerson school principal Leo P. Schleck, director of radio education for the city, talking on the radio at Emerson School.
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W...
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Samuel Sterling Sherman, Educator

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Description: Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren...
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Teachers with Educational Toy

Date: 09 09 1948
Description: Two Madison teachers, Ruth Allcott of Wisconsin High, and Lillian Simonson, Marquette principal, are shown experimenting with a new "teaching gadget" for u...
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Yerkes Observatory Tour

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Three high school science teachers and a Kiwanis Club representative escort 22 pupils from Madison's five high schools on a Kiwanis-sponsored educational t...
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Red Cross First Aid Training for Madison Teachers

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: Madison teachers participating in a Red Cross first aid training course as part of the civil defense program. West high school principal R. O. Christoffers...
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Allis Grade School Athletic Banquet

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Four Allis grade school athletic captains with their principal, Walter Barr, and East high school assistant football coach, Ferris "Red" McKinley, who was ...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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Miss Amanda Stoltzfus

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Miss Amanda Stoltzfus. In 1910, Stoltzfus organized the Tuleta Agriculture High School in Tuleta, Texas and later became an inst...
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Tribute for Armand Ketterer

Date: 02 11 1958
Description: Jack Burke standing at a podium onstage while reading a tribute and life story of Armand F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin school, standing at right.
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Beatrice Walton and Lucile Clock

Date: 05 12 1958
Description: Two well known Madison teachers, Beatrice Walton, left, and Lucile Clock, are honored at a farewell reception given by the Dudgeon Parent-Teacher Associati...
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We Saw You . . . as Catholic Schools Opened

Date: 09 1955
Description: Sister M. Cordis, 7th & 8th grade teacher and principal at Holy Redeemer Catholic School located at 128 West Johnson Street, points out to her class a less...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: The Madison Altrusa club gives a summer scholarship each year to a talented Madison student in honor of the late Lucy Irene Buck, a former club president a...
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Woodward Avenue School Faculty

Date: 09 1919
Description: Teachers and administrators at Woodward Avenue School posing for a group portrait in front of the brick school building. Jeannette Holt is sitting in the f...
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Southern Wisconsin Educator's Meeting

Date: 02 12 1959
Description: Three men checking the schedule for the meeting of the Southern Wisconsin Education Association. Left to right: William Marsh, Madison, secretary; Frederic...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New third grade teacher Diane Schmitt meets with Sun Prairie principal Bernard M. Dunn.
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Bradford W. Gillett

Date: 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active...

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