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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Joan Williams and Dolores Roegner repair a furnace with a hammer and pliers in the house they share with two other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died.
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Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best and Her Two Children

Date: 01 04 1949
Description: Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best, Eagle Heights apartments, reading a book to her two children, Sally 6, and Steven, 4. The family is new to the area, having move...
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University Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 01 20 1949
Description: University Houses at Eagle Heights. This is the dining room of Associate Professor and Mrs. Schott Cutlips.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 04 1949
Description: The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Ms. Clara Effinger, 842 Spaig...
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Decorating First Apartment

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Newlyweds George and Lorna Homes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. The couple is shown hanging up a bedsheet to serve as a window curtai...
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Air Force Families

Date: 04 02 1951
Description: Mrs. Robert C. (Marion) Dennison posing for a portrait with her daughter, Holly, age 2, and her son, Scott, 3 months. She is the wife of Captain Robert C. ...
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Dushans Ship Out from Truax To England

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mary Dushan surrounded by her four children. They are, clockwise from upper left: Andy, 7, Joseph Jr., 9 1/2, Jimmy, 4, and Patrica Ann, ...
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North Central Airline Stewardesses

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Stewardess Ruth Otto cleaning an apartment at 3160 East Washington Avenue which she shares with two other stewardesses. The photograph was taken to accompa...
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Anne Pidcoe, teacher, enters an apartment building with an armload of groceries in preparation for a dinner party.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler cooking spaghetti for a dinner party at her apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apt. 205.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler fastens a necklace for Pat Pidcoe in preparation for a dinner party at their apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apartment 205.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Anne Pidcoe, teacher, welcomes guest Bill Meuer to a dinner party at 122 East Gilman Street, Apartment 205.

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