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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 23 1954
Description: Monte Allen, age eight, dreams of children receiving toys from the Empty Stocking Club as a result of his and others' donations. The Club, sponsored by the...
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Babysitting the Charlton Children

Date: 08 07 1956
Description: Babysitter Linda Taylor comforts Delia Charlton.
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Planning High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 04 1957
Description: The Brandenburg family is one of hundreds in Madison who open their homes to State Basketball Tournament student guests. Marian Brandenburg and her twin da...
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Robert Levine Home Interior

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: The bedroom for Robert and Bella Levine's daughter in their home at 3412 Crestwood Drive in Madison. The feminine decor features wide stripes on pink backg...
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Interior Decorating in Homes

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: Lilac wallpaper sets the theme for colors in the master bedroom of the house of Dr. and Mrs. H.L. Greene at 201 Del Mar Drive. Draperies and bedspreads are...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
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Fitts Family Preparing to Move From Farmhouse

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Master bedroom in the George Fitts family's rented brick farmhouse on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road. The farmhouse was originally owned by Carl Meyer.
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Paintings on Walls

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Description: View of interior of Sid's office with a number of paintings and other artworks framed and displayed on a wall in the corner of a room above a table with la...
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Bates Bedspreads and Draperies

Date: 08 18 1953
Description: Emporium Department Store window display of Bates bedspreads and draperies with sign that reads: "Back to School."
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Gately's Furniture Company Displays

Date: 09 27 1954
Description: Bedroom furniture display at Gately's Furniture Company located at 5005 West Beltline Highway.
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Girl Praying for a Bright Christmas

Date: 11 17 1954
Description: A young girl kneeling at the side of a bed accompanies a plea for donating to the Empty Stocking Club organized by the Wisconsin State Journal. A st...
Postcard

Madison General Hospital, Corner of a Six-Bed Room

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Description: Interior view of a hospital room with patients in the beds. One patient is reading a newspaper. Caption reads: "Madison General Hospital, Madison, Wis. Co...
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Pat Richter Relaxing at Home

Date: 11 22 1962
Description: U.W. student-athlete Pat Richter relaxing at his home at 2034 Yahara Place before his final home game for the Badger football team. He is lounging in bed r...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper boy Malcolm Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, dressing before dawn to prepare for completing his daily newspaper route. The hands on his alarm clock i...
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Winnipeg Y-Teens Visit Madison

Date: 04 08 1958
Description: "All the Winnipeg girls were housed with Madison families during their four-day stay. While Bonnie Rejahl, hugging a toy bear, left, and her Canadian house...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Richard and Alice Welch, 4410 Boulder Terrace, admire their new baby girl Andrea (age six days) during her first nap in her new crib at home.
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Florence Sullivan with Grandchildren

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Florence Sullivan is shown packing a suitcase in her bedroom as John and Jane Sullivan, two of her grandchildren look on. Florence Sullivan, nearly 78 year...
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Daylight Saving Time Ends on September 25th

Date: 09 23 1960
Description: Richard Brye, 4338 Travis Terrace, poses to remind Madison residents that Daylight Saving Time ends in Wisconsin at 2:00 a.m. on September 25th. All clocks...
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Dream House Built from Plans in Newspaper

Date: 10 29 1960
Description: Mike Elliott is shown riding his favorite wooden giraffe in his room in the "dream House" built from plans in the Wisconsin State Journal by his par...

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