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Mrs. Albert Quentmeyer and Two Foster Children

Date: 08 12 1944
Description: Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t...
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Women's Swim Suits

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Nanette Taylor, dressed in current fashion suit, is viewing Betty Lippman dressed in 1903 style swim suit.
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Vintage Gym Dress for Women

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Maude Johnson dressed in a turn of the century dance class outfit.
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Getting Ready for College

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Perry Neff, who will be attending Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and his sister, Ruth Rhea Neff, who will be attending Ferry Hall in Lake Fo...
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Vintage Dress for Women

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Gene Woodfin dressed in a 1898 University of Wisconsin gym suit.
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Kennedy Mansfield Dairy Co. Horse-Drawn Delivery Service

Date: 09 05 1944
Description: Horse caretaker, Matt Marty, shown with Prince, one of the horses used to pull milk delivery wagons for Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Company, 101 North Lake Str...
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Professors of Women's Physical Education

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Professor Blanche M. Trilling, director of the physical education department, and Professor Abbie Shaw Mayhew, former director. Professor Trilling spoke ab...
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Kenneth Strauss

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Kenneth Strauss, chief gunners mate with the US Navy, on leave with his parents. Strauss is a former employee of the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Fire Chief Edward J. Page

Date: 09 13 1944
Description: Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Departmen...
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Mrs. Betty Larsen and Son

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Mrs. Roy B. Larsen (Betty Odegard), holding son Eric. Mrs. Larsen and her son are staying with her mother, Mrs. S.L. Odegard, of Fox Bluff, while her husba...
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Mrs. Portia Horning and Daughter

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: Mrs. Roger O. Hornig (Portia Stone), holding daughter Pamela. Mrs. Horning and her daughter are staying with her mother, Mrs. Charles H. Stone, at Kennedy ...
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Mrs. Phyllis Stehr and Son

Date: 09 15 1944
Description: Mrs. Wesley C. Stehr, (Phyllis Bergh) holding son Richard "Dickie." Mrs. Stehr and her son are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Bergh, 1250 Sher...
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High School Student War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid...
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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: John Gorman, 1st grader at Emerson, and Gretchen Hovig, 7th grader at Lapham, with their art work being exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhib...
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Midget Football Team Player

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Carol Kopp adjusting the helmet on David Hoeveler, a member of the West End Tigers, midget football team.
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Mr. Blaney

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Portrait of Mr. Blaney.
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Kathryn Piper

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob...
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Historical Society Artifacts

Date: 09 12 1944
Description: Two men and one woman look at dishes or plates donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Jean DeYoung

Date: 10 04 1944
Description: Portrait of Jean DeYoung, executive director of the University of Wisconsin.
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Ruth Harris and "Henry"

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Ruth Harris, acting curator of the Wisconsin Historical Society, is putting a man's coat from 1870 on a mannequin named Henry or Henrietta, if it is dresse...

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