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Sister's House

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Description: Caption reads: "Sisters' House, Academy and Orphanage Van Buren St." Three trees stand in front of the building. A woman is in front left of center, and tw...
Photograph

Winnifred Ahrens Spring

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Description: A studio portrait of Winnifred Ahrens Spring, a kindergarten teacher at West Side School in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Classroom

Date: 10 06 1971
Description: Early childhood classroom in which two volunteer teachers are instructing children.
Photograph

Children at School Table

Date: 1900
Description: Children in a kindergarten class sit around a table with their teacher, probably Flora LeClaire. The calendars on the wall indicate that this photograph w...
Postcard

The First Kindergarten in America

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Description: Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ...
Photograph

Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: University of Wisconsin graduate (BS & MS) Anita Reith, director of the Unitarian Meeting House Nursery school, conducts an experiment with two of her stud...
Photograph

Slow Learners' Nursery School

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Mrs. H.L. Gibson works with two pupils at Madison's unique Slow Learners' Nursery School, believed to be the only one of its kind in the country.
Photograph

Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
Photograph

Morningside Tuberculosis Sanatorium Classroom

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Teacher Mrs. Barbara Austin sitting with seven of her students in a classroom at Morningside Sanatorium at 300 Femrite Drive. The young patients averaged a...
Photograph

Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
Photograph

Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Charlie Thronson "tells his troubles" to student teacher, Evelyn Nelson. She is cradling him while he is standing.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
Photograph

Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Student teacher, Marilyn Nelson, sitting on the floor and reading to Mark Weinberg. Also listening are Frank Effland and Eddie Grant. Mark is holding a stu...
Photograph

Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) posing with a Good Behavior Poster on the set of WMTV's Romper Room program.
Photograph

United Givers Fund Campaign

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Salvation Army's Nursery School, a Red Feather agency, is inspected by Stanton Stavrum, head of United Givers Fund Business and Industrial Employees Divisi...
Photograph

U.W. Dames Club Nursery School

Date: 02 13 1959
Description: Young children paying attention to their teacher, Beverly McCumber, who is reading a picture book at a cooperative nursery school at Bashford Methodist Chu...
Photograph

Your Puppet Pals

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown standing behind a set from "Your Puppet Pals" which includes 3 puppets: Professor Bookworm, Dingle the Clown, and F...
Photograph

Two Oiyotte Sisters

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Description: Two of the "Five Oiyotte Sisters" pose together at a daycare. On the left is a child seated in a chair. The sisters attended early childhood classes in Ric...
Photograph

Merrillyn Wegner with her Puppets

Date: 12 10 1953
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown holding puppets and standing in front of a set from "Your Puppet Pals", a weekly show on WKOW-TV. She has a smiling...
Photograph

Salvation Army Nursery School

Date: 12 27 1954
Description: Mrs. Chester Hartel and Mrs. Lew Cornelius, officers of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, distribute toys to youngsters at the Salvation Army nursery school.

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