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| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging on the wall, as well as tables with other crafted goods in a room with a high ceiling. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | Wooden tables and other crafts on display at a craft show in a room with a high ceiling. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging from the wall. Rugs are draped over radiators. There are also bedside tables, lamps, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair. A s... |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | A holiday tree made by Martha Hart decorates a table. The tree is accented with leaves and boughs around a cone-shaped styrofoam base, with light green osa... |
| Date: | 11 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Central High School's fall play is "You Can't Take It With You". Shown are members of the properties committee who work behind the scenes: Mary Ann Imhoff ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Women of the Elk prepare materials for distribution for the 1954 Christmas seal drive honoring the 50th anniversary of the National Anti-Tuberculosis Assoc... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Damres (left), home matron, and Helen Antoine, Mendota Garden Club member, pass out gifts during a Christmas party for residents of the Oakwood L... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Vivian Schleck (left), member of the Mendota Garden Club, lights a candle, and Mrs. Alvin Sonnenberg, member of the Little Garden Clubs, serves cookies du... |
| Date: | 06 25 1955 |
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| Description: | Jessie Briese, sitting, is pouring tea for (left to right) Lillian Dean, Mrs. John Westmont, and Agnes Dreher. The tea and jelly mart was held at the home ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. Gladys Kneebone (left), C... |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Two women, one standing, and the other sitting by a sewing machine "are examining some of the men's shirts which have been converted into bed jackets for a... |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Three women prepare "materials used in the making of cancer dressings." The women include Eleanor Britt, Florence Anderson, and Marcia Udelhofen. The orig... |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Four women are sitting together behind a low table containing small bundles of cloth and a scissors while making slippers for the children staying at a Mad... |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Three women and a girl are sitting and chatting at a table while making toys for a Madison hospital. Shown as they sew and stuff cloth toys, are (left to r... |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman sitting on a chair holding a cigarette and holding a camera up to her eye. On the table in front of her are three Schlitz beer bottles,... |
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