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| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove. |
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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman in a long skirt sitting on the front steps of a house. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Date: | 10 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas... |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland and his wife Madge in their kitchen pickling pears. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | E.W. and Mary Brandel relax together in their home in front of a brick fireplace. They are both wearing eyeglasses; he is reading a newspaper and she is kn... |
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| Description: | Three men from the Shivers family pose holding cakes and vases of flowers. One of the men is Tom Shivers and one is Algie Shivers, and the other man is uni... |
| Date: | 04 10 1998 |
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| Description: | "At St. Theresa's parish hall our regulars are joined by "Buddy" Ruecker's friend Kitty Rogers & her mother Hilda Deamer (next to Ralph). Lucille Lux is at... |
| Date: | 11 19 1999 |
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| Description: | "Our waitress at the Pyramid was Patricia 'George' Butch. She explained that 28 years ago, when she applied for the job, there was already an employee name... |
| Date: | 07 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred T. Cruse displays seven examples of her heavily decorated handmade velvet Christmas stockings, which she sells nation-wide and which retail for $... |
| Date: | 07 14 2000 |
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| Description: | "Waiting on us at the Flashback Rustic Saloon is Bonnie Gonyo." |
| Date: | 02 08 2002 |
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| Description: | "Deb, our waitress, posed with us at The Port Hotel, in Port Washington, WI." From left to right; John Bodden, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Deb, Ralph Widmer, an... |
| Date: | 02 14 2003 |
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| Description: | "Breanna joined Shirley when we visited JD's Fieldhouse in Caledonia." |
| Date: | 08 29 2003 |
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| Description: | "Our waitress, Megan, joined us when we dined at Trip's in Pipe." |
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