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Central High School Driving Class

Date: 02 18 1939
Description: Group portrait of Central High School driving license class holding certificates and standing beside "AAA Dual Control Driver Training Car." They are stand...
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Safety Patrol Boys

Date: 05 19 1937
Description: Harry Stiles and Converse Hettinger, two school safety patrol boys from Portage, Wisconsin, on their way to a national safety patrol conclave in Washington...
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Boy Scout Sled Race

Date: 01 24 1953
Description: Boy scout sled team participating in the Klondike Derby sled race. The boys are pulling the sled on the Monona Golf Course, with Nichols School in the back...
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Randall School Area

Date: 1928
Description: View of the Randall School area, showing special street traffic signs on the road at the school crossing. In addition there are numerous children visible o...
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Randall School

Date: 1928
Description: View from across the street of the Randall School on Regent Street. Special street signs on the road are visible. A group of students appear to be waiting ...
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AAA Dual Control Training Car

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: The Madison board of education's summer driving program for high school students acquires another American Automobile Association (AAA) dual control car, a...
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Verona School District Safety Patrol

Date: 10 13 1950
Description: Twelve Verona public school students are sworn in as members of the school safety patrol by R.C. Salisbury, left, director of the safety division of the Wi...
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Schoolhouse Traffic Hazards

Date: 04 24 1926
Description: Children walking along the side of a road in front of a one-room schoolhouse as an automobile approaches from behind. Other children are playing in the sch...
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Driver Education Dual Control Car

Date: 07 02 1953
Description: Seated in a dual control car used for driver education classes are, from left: Milt Diehl, instructor, and East High students, Bruce Schmidt and John Fillh...
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AAA School Safety Program

Date: 08 31 1953
Description: Stuart B. Wright, AAA general Manager, presents school safety signs to Mayor George Forster, Supt. of Schools Philip H. Falk, and Police Chief Bruce Weathe...
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Driver Education at East High School

Date: 06 18 1956
Description: Twelve men are posing in front of over twenty similar automobiles parked in two neat lines on pavement in back of East High School. The men are auto dealer...
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Safety Patrol Members Leave for Washington

Date: 05 11 1960
Description: 32 Madison area school safety patrol members leave from the AAA Office at 103 North Hamilton Street for Washington, D.C. to join the largest Wisconsin dele...
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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Two young people are examining a wall chart depicting traffic lanes, cross walks, and intersections. There are movable adhesive rectangles representing car...
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Traffic Safety School Graduate

Date: 04 14 1964
Description: Judge William L. Buenzil, right, presents a final "report card" to Stephen Eisle who is the one thousandth graduate of the Dane County traffic school. Pers...
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Dangers of Children on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Henry Cuccia, a ninth-grader at Cherokee Heights school, demonstrates "what not to do" on the Illinois Central railroad tracks near the school as he walks ...
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Dangers of Children on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Kathy Cramer, an eighth-grader at Cherkokee Heights school demonstrates "what not to do" on the Illinois Central railroad tracks near the school by crossin...

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