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Peterson House Bedroom

Date: 09 29 1949
Description: Interior view of the Arthur Peterson House at 4175 Cherokee Drive, showing a bedroom.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
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Schantz Home

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Interior view of the boys' bedroom in the new home of Harold and Monona Schantz, located at 310 Kensington Drive.
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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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Tommy Torbleau

Date: 09 02 1952
Description: Tommy Torbleau of 425 Memphis Avenue has Perthes disease and has spent the summer in bed. His plea for letters appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...

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