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We Saw You . . . at Nursery School

Date: 11 22 1960
Description: Story hour time at the Salvation Army all day nursery school, 121 West Wilson Street. Boys and girls are shown listening to a teacher reading from a book. ...
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We Saw You . . . at Nursery School

Date: 11 22 1960
Description: Kathy Conto (3) entertains herself at the Salvation Army all day nursery school, 121 West Wilson Street. Anne Shea serves as the head teacher and is assist...
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U.W. Dames Club Nursery School

Date: 02 13 1959
Description: Young children paying attention to their teacher, Beverly McCumber, who is reading a picture book at a cooperative nursery school at Bashford Methodist Chu...
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Marquette School "Grocery Store"

Date: 03 16 1932
Description: Grade 3A at Marquette school playing "grocery store."
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Saturday Art Class for Children

Date: 03 08 1958
Description: Children watching instructor Rollin Jansky, a graduate student, as he begins a picture using burlap and yard wool at a Saturday art class for children run ...
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Saturday Art Class for Children

Date: 03 08 1958
Description: A boy is busy creating a design at a Saturday art class for children run by the University of Wisconsin Art Education Department. He is pulling yarn throug...
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Activities at the Neighborhood House

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: Bobby Abbott (background, 22 South Park Street) and Ernest Vance (4 South Francis Street) are playing catch in a gymnasium at the Neighborhood House at 768...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad, daughter of the Orlow Notstad farm family, is standing in front of the Rockdale School where she will be a first-grader the day after Labo...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Levi Wood painting at an easel. His sleeves are rolled up and he is wearing a smock. In the background is a wall of coats hanging from hooks, and another b...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Charlie Thronson "tells his troubles" to student teacher, Evelyn Nelson. She is cradling him while he is standing.
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Shelly Felt playing a vinyl recording on a portable record player. A holder with records is standing next to the record player.
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Student teacher, Marilyn Nelson, sitting on the floor and reading to Mark Weinberg. Also listening are Frank Effland and Eddie Grant. Mark is holding a stu...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Mark Weinberg sitting in a wooden box on a linoleum tile floor, pretending to be a "jack in the box." He is holding his hands over his eyes.
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Cindy Livermore pretending to talk on a telephone, while sucking her thumb.
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Bonnie Berman hugging a large doll.
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Shorewood Carnival Helps Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 04 1957
Description: Eight Shorewood School first graders pose with their teacher and with Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin. "Roundy's Fun Fund" collected donated money to benefit hand...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: In a staged elementary school classroom scene, a teacher notices an inattentive boy. The four actors are: Geoffrey Rotwein, Faye Daley ("teacher"), Marion...
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His Courage Gathered

Date: 02 12 1968
Description: A young boy is scrunching up his cheek with one hand while pointing to something in a frame on a table. Adults are standing in the background (faces out of...
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Two Oiyotte Sisters

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Description: Two of the "Five Oiyotte Sisters" pose together at a daycare. On the left is a child seated in a chair. The sisters attended early childhood classes in Ric...
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Learning Their Numbers

Date: 1978
Description: Teacher Dorothy Ledin teaching numbers to two pre-schoolers using a board with removable numbers and dots at Ellis School.

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