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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Middleton High School Girls Group

Date: 01 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Middleton High School girls group.
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Carrie King

Date: 04 24 1945
Description: Carrie King (Mrs. F.H. King), 88, of 426 University Farm Place, who came to Madison with her husband, a professor of Agricultual Physics, in 1888. Mrs. Kin...
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Twins Cecelia and Alma Moore

Date: 01 15 1948
Description: Widely known twin sisters in southern Wisconsin, Cecelia (left) and Alma Moore, now Mrs. Walter M. (Cecelia) Mass, Jr., and Mrs. Robert O. (Alma) Bauch. Th...
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Reading to the Elderly

Date: 04 01 1960
Description: A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman.
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Questions about Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ...
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Three Women Posing Around Table

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women gathered around a table in front of a painted backdrop. One woman rests her forearm on her friends shoulder and ...
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Two Women Reading a Book

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women sitting in front of a painted backdrop sharing a book. Both women are wearing hair combs. One woman is looking at ...
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Two Women Examining a Starfish

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Description: Cabinet card of two women sitting at a table examining a starfish and other underwater specimens using magnifiers. Open books appear on the table, probably...
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Brides and Grooms

Date: 04 02 1957
Description: Molly Moore, lower left, showing her bridal book and silver service to her parents and the mother of her fiance. Seated in back of Molly is, left to right:...
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Studio Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is sitting, holding a book; the other two are standing on either side ...
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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Tere Rios (Mrs. H.J. Versace), left, chatting with the store proprietor who holds a copy of her book "An Angel Grows Up." They are at an autographing tea a...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, tests a pie entered in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recip...
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Group Portrait of the Atwood Family

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Description: Seated from left to right; Martha, Rufus and Emma. Standing from left to right; Martha, Harris and Myron. The 1870 US Census has the family configuration a...
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University of Wisconsin Annual Mock Senate Event

Date: 03 18 1961
Description: Ann Garfinkle sits at a desk in the Wisconsin Assembly chamber as she plays the role of a United States Senator during the annual mock senate event sponsor...
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Edgewood Students

Date: 03 09 1944
Description: Five Edgewood students studying around a table in the library.
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Signe Skott Cooper and Mary Herb

Date: 1955
Description: Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv...
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Betty Freidan Speaks

Date: 07 23 1964
Description: Betty Friedan, author of the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," spoke on "The Crisis in Women's Identity-A Challenge to Education" in the Great Hall of ...
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Governor Julius P. Heil and His Family

Date: 1938
Description: Julius P. Heil sits reading a newspaper with members of his family. To his right is Joe Jr., 13 and to his left is Barbara Ann, 9. His wife, Elizabeth, sit...
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Dane County Library Service

Date: 08 16 1966
Description: Dane County Library Service Director, Donald Lamb and Librarian Barbara Larson standing outdoors in front of the Bookmobile parked at the Madison Public Li...

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