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Service Group Officers

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president of the Madison Army Officers' Wives Club, and Mrs. Philip Affatica, president of the Madison Enlisted Men's Wives Cl...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas...
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Elsie Taschek at Carillon Keyboard

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Elsie Taschek at the keyboard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison carillon. Traditionally the carillon was always played by men before World War II.
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Jean Larson Operating Movie Projector

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play...
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Mrs. Agnes Miller with Daughter and Grandson

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Agnes Miller, married and divorced from Tim McCoy, Western movie star, with her daughter, Mrs. Dudley (Rita) Vernon-Smith, and grand...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Paul Hohf, Mrs. Byron Caldwell, ...
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Student Pledges of Delta Gamma

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Gathering of four student pledges of Delta Gamma sorority of the University of Wisconsin, having tea during their visit. The pledges include Mary Bringardn...
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Elizabeth Waters Hall Students Tea Committee

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three University of Wisconsin coeds of Elizabeth Waters Hall dormitory who have arranged for a tea and open house for facility members and friends. Standin...
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Anna Silbernagel Kurz

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Anna Silbernagel Kurz, reminisces about her father, Jacob Silbernagel, an early downtown Madison businessman for a story in the Wiscons...
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Students Stuffing Christmas Seals

Date: 10 15 1944
Description: Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents.
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Cub Scout Den Mothers

Date: 11 17 1944
Description: Den Mothers Mrs. D.E. (Lenice K.) Arnold, left, and Mrs. E.M. (Mildred F.) Downey, are putting the final touches on the Indian headdress, worn by Mrs. E.J....
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Mrs. Gabe E. (Maria) Michelson

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Gabe E. Mickelson (Maria Thompson), taken on the occasion of her 89th birthday.
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Four Students Sledding on Bascom Hill

Date: 11 30 1944
Description: Four students sledding on Bascom Hill using a sled from 1838 which they borrowed from the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. Seated from left: Joan Hamme...
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Pioneer Christmas Scene

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Reenacting a pioneer Christmas custom of many foreign settlers in the early days of Wisconsin of singing carols around the family organ, are left to right:...
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Lord and Lady Halifax Visit

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Lord and Lady Halifax with Madison's mayor, F. Halsey Kraege.
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Miss Harriette Holt and Mrs. Warren W. Clark

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Harriette Holt on the left, and Mrs. Warren W. Clark on the right, at the birthday party held for Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Dow...
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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Men and women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter are ringing up the sale...
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War Bond Sellers

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: One of a series of portraits of war bond sellers, part of the national retailer's Series E War Loan Campaign, representing Manchesters, Sears, Rennebohms, ...
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Ona Sanford

Date: 12 20 1944
Description: Secretary Ona Sanford in her office. Ona handles all of the correspondence for Wittwer and Webster, Inc., insurance agency.

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