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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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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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Pottery Class

Date: 1970
Description: A woman is throwing a pot on the wheel in a pottery class.
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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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University of Wisconsin Homecoming Rally

Date: 10 22 1965
Description: A young woman fan is shown standing in a large crowd waving a pom-pom and cheering at the Homecoming game between the Badgers and the Buckeyes.
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Typing Class

Date: 1939
Description: Interior view of a classroom with young men and women learning about, and working on, typewriters.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class

Date: 1911
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class. The women are using chemistry equipment and microscopes. On the blackboard is a formula fo...
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University of Wisconsin Histological Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of a histological laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of students, men and women, are sitting around two tables in fro...
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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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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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Girl in Wheelchair

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Girl in wheelchair with teacher at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Relaxing at Downer College

Date: 1933
Description: Two women casually reading in a dorm room at Milwaukee-Downer College. A map of Milwaukee hangs on one wall.
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Group of Students

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of four women, seated in front of three men, all unidentified. The women wear high-collared white blouses and long dark skirts. The men wear...
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Two Woman Drawing a Pipette

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Barbara Baird (left,) and Mary Ellen Sperle are drawing a pipette from molten glass in a University of Wisconsin Laboratory. Traditionally, this work was d...
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Participant in Nursing Program for Married Women

Date: 05 11 1965
Description: Donna Osness typing a paper for her husband, Wayne, foreground, who is a University of Wisconsin Ph.D student. One of a series of images about Donna, a mot...
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East High School Boys Glee Club

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School Boys Glee Club. A woman is standing in the center of the front row.
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Wooden Schoolhouse

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Description: View across lawn towards a group of women, men, and children posing standing near and in front of a wooden schoolhouse.
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Wisconsin Lutheran Student Foundation Open House

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Five upper-class women students are registering new students at the Wisconsin Lutheran Student Foundation Open House. Left to right: Donna Burr, Neenah; Ru...
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Coeds on Roof of Ann Emery Hall

Date: 06 23 1931
Description: Three University of Wisconsin-Madison coeds are playing cards, and one woman is reading, on the roof of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent ...
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University of Wisconsin Honor's Convocation

Date: 06 07 1959
Description: A group of 447 University of Wisconsin honor students stand in line to enter the University Memorial Union theater for the 21st annual honor's convocation ...

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