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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,...
Postcard

Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Colorized postcard of a bedroom with a built-in bed with bed curtains, two chairs and a table. A large painting decorates the wall. Text below reads "Littl...
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....
Photograph

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

Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: A bedroom in the C.S. Gonstead home. Madison architect Herb Fritz designed the house, which was built in 1951 and severely damaged by fire in 1991. The acc...
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...
Photograph

Babysitting the Charlton Children

Date: 08 07 1956
Description: Babysitter Linda Taylor comforts Delia Charlton.
Photograph

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

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...
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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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