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Two Women with Cleaning Implements

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Description: Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping...
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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
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International Harvester Refrigerator

Date: 1950
Description: Woman demonstrates the features of a well-stocked International Harvester refrigerator.
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Child at Library

Date: 10 09 1961
Description: A girl enjoys a book at the library.
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Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
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Bowling

Date: 02 13 1969
Description: The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Co.

Date: 06 15 1945
Description: Group portrait of C.L. Turner, traffic supervisor for Wisconsin Power & Light Company, and six female employees of Wisconsin Power & Light Company, 122 Wes...
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Fashion Model in Front of Carillon Tower

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchester's Department Store model modeling a dress, hat, and purse in front of the Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Madison Business College Female Students

Date: 03 27 1939
Description: Group portrait of seventeen Madison Business College female students.
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Tap Dancers

Date: 10 28 1938
Description: Five couples in folk costumes wearing tap dance shoes.
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Tap Dancers

Date: 10 28 1938
Description: Five couples wearing folk costumes and tap shoes posing in front of a mirror for the Hazel Conlon School of the Dance.
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Women's Volleyball Team

Date: 03 24 1937
Description: Group portrait of 13 women players and a coach, Lincoln School volleyball team.
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Women's Volleyball Team

Date: 03 24 1937
Description: Group portrait of 15 women, Longfellow School women's volleyball team.
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Court of Honor for President's Ball

Date: 01 16 1937
Description: Group portrait of eleven of the fifteen girls elected to the President's Birthday Ball, Queen's Court of Honor.
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Women's Soccer/Baseball Team

Date: 04 08 1936
Description: Group portrait of West High School women's soccer-baseball team (Board of Education Rec. Dept.).
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University of Wisconsin Female Archers

Date: 05 04 1934
Description: Six University of Wisconsin coeds, members of the Archery Club, posing on the archery field with bows drawn.
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Two Pairs of Twins at U.W.

Date: 04 20 1934
Description: Outdoor portrait of two pairs of twins at University of Wisconsin. Left to right: Mary and Elizabeth Rhodes and Eleanor and Dorothea Bond.
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Women Volleyball Champs

Date: 04 03 1934
Description: Group portrait of 9 women volleyball players in gym dress holding a ball that says "Volly Champs '34."
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Baron Brothers Basement Shoe Department

Date: 03 19 1934
Description: Baron Brothers Department Store, 12-18 W. Mifflin Street, basement shoe department with four salesmen and a large number of women customers.
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Eight Capitol Scrubwomen

Date: 06 09 1933
Description: Group portrait of eight Wisconsin State Capitol scrubwomen. Left to right: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, Mrs. Elizabeth Weddig, Miss Mary McCloskey, Mrs. Ingeborg Sid...

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