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New Ranch-Style Home of Lloyd Yaudes Family

Date: 03 21 1951
Description: Jimmy and Tommy Yaudes sitting at a table in one of the bedrooms of the Lloyd Yaudes family's new ranch-style home at 526 Virginia Terrace.
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Nursery Room

Date: 09 19 1951
Description: 8-month old Billy Gately of 4210 Nakoma Road standing in his crib in a nursery decorated with colorful stuffed animal print drapes.
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David & Florence Bade Residence

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Interior view of the David & Florence Bade residence at 5701 Winnequah Road in Frost Woods, Monona. The photograph shows Jimmy's (age 8) bedroom, including...
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Residence of Tom and Ruth McGovern

Date: 03 19 1952
Description: Interior view of the master bedroom in the home of builder Tom McGovern and his family at 25 Hiawatha Circle. Mahogany walls form a backdrop for the twin b...
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Home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Voegeli

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Interior view of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don J. (Jean) Voegeli at 2805 Oxford Place in Shorewood Hills. The spacious one-story home was designed around th...
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Lewis Arms with Daughter Rita

Date: 1957
Description: Lewis Arms sits on a bed feeding his infant daughter Rita Arms (Witter).
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Forest's Room

Date: 1912
Description: Forest Middleton reads at his desk in a room cluttered with photographs, neckties, suspenders, and a cap. A bare lightbulb hangs from the ceiling. There is...
Postcard

Forest and Tootsie

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton reading while lying on his bed with the family dog, Tootsie, beside him. There is a full bookcase behind the bed,...
Photograph

Ellsworth House

Date: 12 13 1953
Description: Donna Lee Genunzio of Racine works at a typewriter as Dixie Joiner of Gilman relaxes on a bed in a suite at the Ellsworth House, a residence for UW co-eds....
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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...
Photograph

Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Portrait of Sharon Terhall in her bedroom, complete with two twin beds with reading lamps on headboards, a desk, a wallpapered wall, and upholstered chairs...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
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 ...
Photograph

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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The Big Job of Baby Sitting

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Trained baby sitter Dan Unmuth, 13, is shown straightening out the bedding of his lively charge, Danny Groh, 15 months.
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Louis M. Hobbins House in Fuller's Woods

Date: 04 27 1965
Description: Old Rectory Sales of Grace Episcopal Chruch is in charge of the sale of furnishings of the historic Louis M. Hobbins house built by E.M. Fuller on the shor...

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