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Grace H. Douma, assistant to Dean of Women at Univ of Wisconsin

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Description: Grace H. Douma, assistant to Dean of Women at University of Wisconsin, sits at her desk in an office.
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Women Can Vote

Date: 1919
Description: Poster for school elections on Tuesday, March 18th, and April 1st, 1919. After 1901, women in Wisconsin were able to vote in school elections, which was an...
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University of Wisconsin Women's Carpentry Class

Date: 1900
Description: Women working with tools, including a saw, in the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Extension women's carpentry class.
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Women Aviators

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Description: Studio portrait of women who are taking flying lessons. Several of the women are dressed in furs.
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Home Economics

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Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
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Beekeeping Class

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Description: Group portrait of men and women posing outdoors in full beekeeping gear. Part of a class on beekeeping in Wisconsin.
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Aviation Class

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Description: Group portrait of women enrolled in an aviation class.
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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University of Wisconsin Biological Laboratory

Date: 06 07 1990
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison biological laboratory. Two women are standing in the center of the room at a sink, and men and women sit at tables on the r...
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Outdoor Gathering

Date: 1930
Description: Men, women, and children in a crowd standing around outside talking in groups near a small outdoor shed. Most of the people have hats on. The women are wea...
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Domestic Science Dining Room, Indian Training School

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Description: Several women in dresses are seated at a table in a formally decorated room. A woman stands holding a tray at the end of the table. The image appears in a ...
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Women of the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building.
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Modernization in SHSW Library

Date: 1955
Description: Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou...
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Judo Throw

Date: 10 26 1966
Description: Woman student instructor throwing a male instructor in a class demonstration.
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Halloween

Date: 11 01 1963
Description: A line of elementary students dressed up in Halloween costumes at school. Women are standing and sitting in the background.
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Spring Valley Cooking School

Date: 02 12 1915
Description: Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie...
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Teacher and Children in front of Log Building

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Description: Group of children and a woman, probably a teacher, posed standing on the steps of a log building, possibly in Disco, Wisconsin. One of the children in the ...
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Pottery Class

Date: 1970
Description: A woman is throwing a pot on the wheel in a pottery class.
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Studio Portrait of Black River High School Class of 1895

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait of two men and three women posing sitting, in front of three men and six women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop in a photogra...
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Portrait of a Woman Graduate

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Description: A young woman is posing in an upholstered chair in front of a cloth backdrop for her graduation portrait. She is wearing a mortar board with a tassel, a da...

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