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"Cottage" Sewing Room

Date: 1884
Description: "Cottage" sewing room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for girls, depicting a class of young girls handling fabrics, sewing, and working with sewing mach...
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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Expression Class in Deaf School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: A teacher and seven students are holding pictures in "Expression class" in a deaf classroom at Doty school, 351 W. Wilson Street. A boy is standing in fron...
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WAVES in a Classroom

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Description: WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in a classroom sitting at typewriters listening to headphones studying code.
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Sewing Class with Mrs. Jones

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Description: Young girls at work in the Rochester Short Course sewing laboratory, with Nellie Kedzie Jones supervising their work. Many girls are doing handwork and som...
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Students Receiving Hearing Test

Date: 04 27 1947
Description: Margaret Hughey taking an individual audiometer test given by Roger Mass at the Sun Prairie High School. In the front row of students, listening in, are Ro...
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St. Mary's Pre-Clinical Nursing Students

Date: 03 07 1948
Description: Group portrait of 23 pre-clinical nursing students at St. Mary's school of nursing who have just received their white caps after completing their six month...
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Madison Vocational School Typing Class

Date: 04 25 1951
Description: Ferne Stone, Madonna Egan, and Vivian Williams practice typing in the Madison Vocational School commercial department's night school typing class. Eight ot...
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Two Instructors Teaching Naval Students Morse Code

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Description: Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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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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Classroom Scene

Date: 1916
Description: Students and teachers, including Leonore Judkins (later Mrs. Forest Middleton), far right, pose in their classroom.
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Consolidated Catholic School

Date: 02 08 1978
Description: "Consolidated Catholic School, Theresa. Mrs. Delorme, teacher, and third grade."
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Students at Work

Date: 1931
Description: Students of the Miles School, Bayfield County District No. 2, read at their desks supervised by their teacher, Mrs. Inez Lindell Bystrom. There is a parlor...
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Room 2, Public School

Date: 1911
Description: Students are posing sitting sideways at their desks in the classroom for a group portrait. The teacher is standing in the back near a door.

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