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Women and Young Girls Posing in Dresses and Hats

Date: 1907
Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and young girls posing in dresses and flowered hats in an urban area, perhaps near the McCormick Works Club House. There ap...
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Young Worker Sands Wooden Wagon Wheel Section

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Description: Young man - possibly a teenager - sanding a section of a wooden wagon wheel with a belt sander at International Harvester's Accurate Engineering Works.
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Central High School Track Team

Date: 04 16 1929
Description: Group portrait of Central High School track team taken at Breese Stevens field, with the Simon Brothers wholesale grocers building (901 E. Washington Avenu...
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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High School Students War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East...
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International Harvester Exhibits at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 08 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Kankakee High School band that is playing in the background as a crowd gathers around International Harvester exhibits at the...
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Central High School Trade and Technical Courses

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Two men wear welding masks while operating an acetylene cutting machine while three other students look on. Welding Instructor Fred Theiler (right) watches...
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Central High School Trade and Technical Courses

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Student Bob Reed operates a sheet metal bending machine while his instructor Winfield Martin supervises. They are both participating in the first year Cent...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: The Cambridge High School marching band goes down North Pinckney Street during the Scrap Metal Parade around the Capitol Square. Shown in the background ar...
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Students Aboard School Bus

Date: 1935
Description: Students aboard International Model C-50 school bus used by Harrison County schools. Two female students are standing near the bus.
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Shoe Rebuilding Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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"Milwaukee Journal" Tour Group

Date: 12 08 1931
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of Oconomowoc High School students on a tour at the "Milwaukee Journal." They are viewing the newspaper's presses in oper...
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Scenic View — Railroad

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Description: A view down railroad tracks near the Bridgeport depot. A woman with her hands behind her back poses on one track. Three boys wearing overalls pose on the m...
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Young Sculptor

Date: 05 13 1968
Description: Thurman Butler, 16, with the sculpture he made while practicing cutting and welding techniques in a foundry course at Milwaukee Technical college. He calle...
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Packing Boxes with Bags of Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries.
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Auto Mechanics Student

Date: 1978
Description: A student using an engine lathe in an auto mechanics class at Indianhead Technical Institute. He is wearing safety glasses, jeans and an Ashland wrestling ...
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Vocational Class

Date: 1978
Description: Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Woodwork

Date: 1934
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with young men in a wood shop using hammers, saws, and other woodworking tools.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts

Date: 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with three images of a Boy Scout troop: a group portrait in front of the settlement house with men and boys ...

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