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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b...
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Interior of Pew House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Ruth Pew (Mrs. J.C.), Frances Hurst (Mrs. William), president of the Madison League of Women Voters, and Katharine Becker (Mrs. Robert M.), member of the b...
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Kenneth T. White Family in their Sailboat

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Jane and Kenneth White and their daughters, Sue (left), Kay, and Barbara, and the family dog, Perky, sailing in their lightning class sailboat on Lake Mend...
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Who's New Club Board Members

Date: 09 13 1955
Description: Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle...
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Historic Kitchen Interior

Date: 01 08 1953
Description: View of the kitchen in the home of Lenore and Forrest Middleton at 3241 Highbury Road. The kitchen was built in 1853 by Joseph Statz and includes various e...
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Blackhawk Country Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 17 1955
Description: A woman and two men at the refreshment table at the Blackhawk Country Club Christmas party.
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Students sitting at desks in a classroom in Shorewood Hills Elementary School.
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Shorewood Hills Community League

Date: 09 22 1948
Description: Mrs. George (Frances) Burrell, 1509 Wood Lane, at left, and Mrs. Charles L. (Myrtle) Fluke, 3003 Harvard Drive, at right, inspecting a map of the village o...
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Children and Their Pets

Date: 04 02 1949
Description: Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred...
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Blackhawk Country Club Addition

Date: 04 13 1950
Description: Exterior view of the recently completed $66,000 addtion to the Blackhawk Country Club in Shorewood Hills.
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Blackhawk Country Club Addition

Date: 04 13 1950
Description: Interior view of the lounge in the newly completed $66,000 addition to the Blackhawk Country Club, whose large picture windows overlook Lake Mendota. The n...
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Porter Butts House

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: Interior view of the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill, Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area, built in 1937. The seat...
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University Houses Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: Children of University of Wisconsin faculty living in University Houses at Eagle Heights are costumed as Native Americans, cowboys, and flowers are marchin...
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The John and Lulu Malin House

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Lulu Malin sitting at a folding table in front of a picture window in the guest alcove at one end of the large recreation room in the John and Lulu Malin h...
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Charles and Fern Thompson House

Date: 07 03 1951
Description: Exterior view of the Charles and Fern Thompson's new home, featuring redwood and red brick siding, at 3539 Topping Road in Shorewood Hills.
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Shorewood Hills Community League Minstrel Show

Date: 10 26 1951
Description: The "Old South" came to life as the Shorewood Hills Community League presented its minstrel show to Shorewood Hills residents and guests. "End men" in blac...
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Philip C. and Kathleen Rosenthal House

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Philip and Kathleen Rosenthal's salmon-red house in Shorewood Hills, designed by Milwaukee architect Alvin Jansama and built in the late 1940's, is on two ...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood.
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Geraldine Fitzpatrick, of 1504 Sumac Drive in Shorewood Hills, decorates her home for Christmas with children Cecelia (age 4), Gerry (age 6), and Lynn (age...

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