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Neighborhood House Exterior

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House, Madison's only settlement house.
Photograph

Group of Children

Date: 1925
Description: Group portrait of children and one adult, all probably of Italian descent.
Photograph

Dr. Francis Townsend

Date: 1938
Description: Dr. Francis E. Townsend seated on the platform of a Townsend Plan Club at a park.
Photograph

Civilian Conservation Corps Cook Staff

Date: 
Description: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) cook staff. Harold Gauer had joined the CCC for a year at a dollar a day in the late 1930's.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Afghan for Red Cross

Date: 1941
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Home Nursing Class

Date: 1942
Description: Image of outdoor group portrait from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of a Red Cross home nursing class held January-May 1942 at the se...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Orioles with Their Dolls

Date: 1940
Description: Group portrait of the Orioles, members of a club for ten-year-old girls at Neighborhood House. A former worker at the settlement house then working in a ho...

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