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High School Girls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of stylishly dressed girls from a Wisconsin high school posing outdoors.
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Freedom School

Date: 1964
Description: Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer.
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"Rag Doll" Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t...
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Embroidery Class

Date: 1920
Description: Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ...
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Women Learning Factory Work

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Description: View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory.
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Manicuring Class

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Description: Women seated at a table learning to give manicures as part of a manicuring class. Behind the group another woman is sitting in a chair receiving a scalp m...
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Photography Students in the Studio

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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First and Second Grade Class

Date: 1888
Description: First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran...
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Students and Teacher Displaying Portrait of President

Date: 1924
Description: A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard.
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Slinger Grade School

Date: 05 15 1902
Description: Students of the Slinger Grade School, pictured with their teachers, Miss Margaret O'Connell who taught grades one through five, and Mr. H.T. White who taug...
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Kindergarten Class

Date: 1903
Description: Miss Konig's kindergarten class. Students in this photograph include: Roland Heismann, Ewald Bierger, Alfred Krueger, Lawrence Margwardt, Irvin Krueger, Jo...
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Students in front of School

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of graduating students and teachers in front of a brick school building. There are twenty-seven women wearing dresses and three men wearing ...
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Afternoon English Class at Neighborhood House

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Description: Group of women seated at tables with a freestanding blackboard on which are written English words and phrases. One of the women in the foreground appears t...
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Zimmerman Twin's Birthday Party

Date: 09 25 1957
Description: The Zimmerman twins, Lettie and Lloyd, celebrated their 11th birthday with 54 friends and 12 teachers at Lincoln School. Left to right are: Miriam Melrose,...
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Upper Room

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Description: A class picture with four rows posing outdoors, with a stone wall behind them on the left, and a brick wall on the right. In front is a row of boys sitting...
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Bay Hill School Classroom

Date: 1930
Description: Ten students sitting at their desks in the classroom at Bay Hill School. Their teacher, Alice Holloway, stands at the back holding a book. Blackboards cove...
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Dunham School Students Outdoors

Date: 1912
Description: The students of Dunham School pose outdoors with the school building in the background. Identified are (front, left to right) LaVerne Campbell, Mildred Pet...
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The School at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Teacher Marjorie Carey stands behind her pupils sitting at their desks at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2, as they pose for their photograph. There i...
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Class Group Portrait

Date: 1902
Description: Group portrait of a school class outdoors in front of their one-room schoolhouse.
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Garfield School Students

Date: 02 06 1959
Description: Group portrait of first through eighth graders from Garfield School with their teacher Grace Sorenson.

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