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Kindergarten Astronauts

Date: 10 11 1968
Description: Kindergarten students wear space helmets they made from buckets as part of a class project designed to interest them in current events. A cardboard "Apollo...
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Electronics Class

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Two electronics students in class studying.
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School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
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Curtiss Aviation School Students

Date: 05 1912
Description: The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ...
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Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
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Mobile X-Ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bus containing mobile x-ray machine with sign, "Wisconsin State Board of Health, Tuberculosis Survey." A male technician is standing beside the bus. The bu...
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Regina Groves at Her Desk

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Regina Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart), sitting at her desk, operating an interdepartment communication system at the Groves School for Secretaries. Behind her...
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Secretary Using Telephone

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro...
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Regina E. Groves

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Regina E. Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart) talking to a man sitting across the table/desk from her at the Groves School for Secretaries, located at 502 State St...
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Earl W. Barnhart

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Earl W. Barnhardt sitting at a desk at Groves School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
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Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Classroom on West Gilman Street side, Groves School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
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Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries, on the first floor at 502 State Street, in the former Branch Bank of Wisconsin building.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club

Date: 12 20 1935
Description: Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union.
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Mr. Moser's Barber Class

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Mr. Dallas Moser, vocational school instructor, pointing to a customer's hair while students from his barber class are looking on.
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Around-the-world Telephone Call

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co...
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Lapham School Radio Room

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. T...
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Phi Epsilon Pi Informal Party Bar

Date: 11 22 1930
Description: Bar set up for informal party at Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity house with beer keg and beer advertising on the wall. There is an autographed picture of Rudy Va...
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Franklin School Roof Construction

Date: 03 13 1930
Description: Franklin School, 305 West Lakeside Street, showing installation of novoid corkboard on the roof.
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Barber Science Class

Date: 08 27 1929
Description: Students in the first class in Barber Science with instructor, Chester Feavel, pointing at an anatomy chart.

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