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| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | William Thorp and Hattie Reed bow their heads in prayer before Thanksgiving dinner is served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its Sunset Club. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 12 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Westra is serving punch at a Christmas party to three residents of the Dane County Home. The party was sponsored by the Madison Association of Un... |
| Date: | 12 14 1952 |
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| Description: | A man is delivering gifts to a Christmas party for residents of the Dane County Home. Four other people are standing near a Christmas Tree. The party was s... |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Pilling, born in England, and mother of Louise Munn, taken a few days before her 100th birthday. |
| Date: | 08 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. George (Adelaide) Larkin at age 90. George Larkin was the son of Jonathan Larkin, Jr., member of an early Madison family which arrived in ... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob... |
| Date: | 11 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Gabe E. Mickelson (Maria Thompson), taken on the occasion of her 89th birthday. |
| Date: | 12 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, cutting the birthday cake at her 94th birthday party hosted by the Milwaukee-Downer club o... |
| Date: | 12 02 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison chapter of the Milwaukee-Downer Club at the birthday party for Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College,... |
| Date: | 07 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Olivia Douglass SeCheverell celebrating her 95th birthday. Mrs. SeCheverell worked fifty-four years as a seamstress, retiring when she was... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| Date: | 08 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Dane County pioneer resident, on her 90th birthday. |
| Date: | 02 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas A. and Mary M. O'Dea on their golden wedding anniversary. |
| Date: | 04 01 1948 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Charles F. Kirwin taken on his 83rd birthday. He was employed by the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad for 56 years. |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Newly crowned Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and governor Oscar Rennebohm shown with Highland's oldest resident, 93-year old Chris Blabaum at Highla... |
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