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Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
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Phi Kappa Fraternity Toga Party

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: John Bassler, Virginia Lee Kehl, Robert Kessenich, and Jo Ann Trainor in Greek costumes enjoying refreshments at the Phi Kappa Fraternity, Toga Party dinne...
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Farmers Union Workshop Meal

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Description: Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto...
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Rubber Workers Workshop

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Description: Rubber Workers during a workshop at the Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton on far left.
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Mine, Mill, and Smelters Union Meal

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Description: Mine, Mill and Smelter workers eating a meal at Highlander Folk School.
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CIO Meal at Highlander

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Description: Summer Youth project, eating in dining hall Myles Horton on left, Wiley Gillmor second from left.
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Cuautla Educational Adults Seminar

Date: 12 16 1962
Description: A village near Cuautla, Mexico, where the Highlander-sponsored, Inter-American Educational Adults seminar was held, invited participants to a committee mee...
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Zilphia Horton Leading Songs

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Description: Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell.
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Eleanor Roosevelt with Zilphia and Myles Horton

Date: 1957
Description: From left: Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton, and Mrs. Roosevelt at a Highlander conference in connection with the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.
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Ringing the Dinner Bell

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Description: A student ringing the dinner bell at Highlander Folk School.
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Civil Rights Workshop Banquet

Date: 08 1956
Description: Four women and a man eating at a table at a Civil Rights banquet at Highlander Folk School. Septima Clark, second from left.
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Community Leadership Workshop

Date: 08 1955
Description: A community leadership workshop session, August-September, at Highlander Folk School. Elizabeth Brinkman, Germany, in background in a flower dress; obscure...
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CIO School Banquet

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Description: Members of the CIO School at a banquet. Fifth from left, Bill Kornhauser, Antioch student, later professor of sociology. Zilphia Horton, extreme left foreg...
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Edgewood College Annual College Day for Students

Date: 11 13 1950
Description: People sit around the head table for the annual college day for students at Edgewood College. From left are: Sister Mary Peter, O.P.; Rev. Mark Barron, O.P...
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Collegiate Attire at Alpha Xi Delta Sorority

Date: 11 03 1953
Description: Five alumnae of Alpha Xi Delta sorority wear clothes of their "vintage" in college to a dinner meeting in honor of new pledges. From left, they are: Jean B...
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Ladies Of The Press Breakfast

Date: 04 25 1954
Description: An interest in advertising drew this group together at the Ladies of the Press Breakfast. Mrs. Lillian Milroy is seated; Margot Eskridge is at left and Gra...
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Thanksgiving Feast

Date: 11 26 1930
Description: Students and teacher seated at a long table loaded with food and drinks for a Thanksgiving meal. There are music and English lessons behind them on the cha...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mary Herb (left), past president, Carol Sommer, the newly-elected president, and Captain Margaret L. Kumpf, Army nurse counselor and banq...
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Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
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Veteran Teacher Guest of Honor at Retirement Party

Date: 06 04 1959
Description: Mrs. Elwood Tracy was guest of honor at a farewell coffee party after she retired from teaching at Shorewood Hills Schools after 31 years. The party was ar...

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