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Two Girls Pouring Milk

Date: 10 12 1955
Description: Two West Junior High School eighth graders, Patty Radder and Jean Kelzenberg, pouring glasses of milk for their potluck club supper held at the Radder home...
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Steven Presenza's Sixth Birthday Party

Date: 10 12 1955
Description: Steven Presenza blowing out the candles on the cake at his sixth birthday party. Included are his two sisters, Lorna Presenza and Paula Presenza, as well a...
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Family with Christmas Decorations

Date: 12 19 1955
Description: Mrs. Paul Meyer and children Freddy, Maria, and Elena, 2141 Keyes Avenue, filling a pinata for Maria's fouth birthday party and also Christmas.
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YMCA 25th Anniversary Speakers

Date: 02 29 1944
Description: Speakers and officials at the 25th "birthday" of the Madison YMCA. Left to right are Oscar Christianson; Robert M. Eickmeyer, YMCA General Secretary; Emer...
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WAVES Celebrating a Birthday

Date: 02 29 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t...
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Elizabeth Pilling

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: Elizabeth Pilling, born in England, and mother of Louise Munn, taken a few days before her 100th birthday.
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Adelaide Larkin

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. George (Adelaide) Larkin at age 90. George Larkin was the son of Jonathan Larkin, Jr., member of an early Madison family which arrived in ...
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Kathryn Piper

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob...
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Mrs. Gabe E. (Maria) Michelson

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Gabe E. Mickelson (Maria Thompson), taken on the occasion of her 89th birthday.
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Ellen Sabin

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, cutting the birthday cake at her 94th birthday party hosted by the Milwaukee-Downer club o...
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Miss Harriette Holt and Mrs. Warren W. Clark

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Harriette Holt on the left, and Mrs. Warren W. Clark on the right, at the birthday party held for Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Dow...
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Milwaukee-Downer College Club Members, Madison Chapter

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Five members of the Madison chapter of the Milwaukee-Downer Club at the birthday party for Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College,...
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Mr. Henry J. Napper

Date: 03 08 1945
Description: Portrait of Henry J. Napper, 2127 Kendall Avenue, in his grocery store at 2532 Monroe Street. Mr. Napper, who has been in the grocery business for 50 years...
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Roger Mott

Date: 03 13 1945
Description: Roger Mott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Mott, 20 Lathrop Street, holding a letter he received from General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. Roger, ...
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Cynthia Harley Birthday Party

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Cynthia Harley celebrates her second birthday with seven young girls. She was born July 13, 1943, daughter of University of Wisconsin Radio Director Willia...
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Mrs. Olivia Douglass SeCheverell

Date: 07 24 1945
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Olivia Douglass SeCheverell celebrating her 95th birthday. Mrs. SeCheverell worked fifty-four years as a seamstress, retiring when she was...
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Ellen Sabin

Date: 11 29 1945
Description: Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o...
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Mrs. Jane Duff

Date: 08 19 1946
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Dane County pioneer resident, on her 90th birthday.
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Fitzpatrick Children's Birthday Party

Date: 01 10 1947
Description: Six young children seated around a table at a birthday party. Taken for Lawrence Fitzpatrick, managing editor of the "Wisconsin State Journal".
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Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry and Three Cub Scouts

Date: 02 12 1947
Description: Because his birthday falls on the same date as Abraham Lincoln's, Chief Justice Marvin B. Bosenberry, honorary president for the Four Lakes Boy Scout Counc...

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