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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Some Bare Spots

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with examples of yards in need of gardens at the Vitale and Annie Gambino homes, and a spot...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: June and George Barry

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with June and George Barry posing by their wood-sided house (725 W. Washington?) amidst ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Pertzborn Girls

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Alice, Rachel, and Barbara Pertzborn posing by their garden in the front corner of ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Matthews Family

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Rosalie, Ollie Mae, and Adrena Matthews posing by their garden, near the front step...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Cordio Children

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Edith, John, and Caroline Cordio posing in the garden at the front of their house a...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Catherine LaBruzzo

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Mrs. Ora Smith

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner in the Senior category garden competition, Mrs. Ora Smith, sitting on th...
Photograph

International DRD-70 Truck with Trailer

Date: 1939
Description: Men loading an International DRD-70 truck and trailer with crates. Original caption reads: "DRD-70 motor truck owned by the Seaboard Transportation Co., Lo...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Children

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Li Hsiu Lan

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor...
Photograph

Cranberry Reservoir

Date: 1939
Description: Reservoir used to store water for raising cranberries. A large group of people are walking around the perimeter towards automobiles parked in the distance....
Photograph

Cutover Land

Date: 1939
Description: Cut-over land in northern Wisconsin.
Photograph

Standing Near a Pond

Date: 1939
Description: Shirley and Robert Krueger standing barefoot at the edge of a pond. Their shoes and socks are lying on rocks at the waters edge. Shirley is holding a bow w...
Photograph

Robert and His Dog Sport

Date: 1939
Description: Outdoor portrait of Robert Krueger sitting on a grain shock with his dog, Sport. His straw hat is lying on the ground next to his feet.
Photograph

Sitting on the Edge of the Porch

Date: 1939
Description: The Edgar Krueger family sitting on the edge of the porch with friends. From left to right: Edgar Krueger, Ann Buss, Adolf Buss, Elna Krueger, and Robert K...
Photograph

Sitting on a Log with a Squirrel

Date: 1939
Description: Robert and Shirley Krueger sitting on a large tree log with a young girl sitting between them. On the left another child is sitting on a large tree stump. ...

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