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Nakoma School Spelling Contest Finalists

Date: 04 07 1950
Description: The six finalists in the recent Nakoma School contest to pick a champion for the city finals of the State Journal's Badger spelling bee look up misspelled ...
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Madison Lutheran School Spelling Champion

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: Barbara North of 1003 Jenifer Street, the spelling champion of the Madison Lutheran School, sits at a desk while reading a newspaper. A dictionary lies ope...
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Mrs. Willie Lou Harris

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Mrs. Willie Lou Harris of 405 Bram Street sits at left with part of her family. Standing left to right are Mrs. James (Georgia Harris) Elvord, Mr. and Mrs....
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Girl Scout Leader Presentation

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: A book on Girl Souting by a Wisconsin author is presented to Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, for her Wisconsin library. Pictured during t...
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Madison Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour.
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Children Patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Three children patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 300 Femrite Drive, are pictured with their teacher, Murva James (center), and Dr. W.D. ...
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Marine Recruits

Date: 09 05 1950
Description: Three Marine reservists check over reading materials for their trip to the West Coast for active duty. They are: Pfc. D.K. Cartter, 1817 Kendall Avenue,Cor...
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Sorority Pledges

Date: 10 03 1950
Description: Two Madison pledges of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Carolyn Piper (left) and Betty Klein, pose for a portrait.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, which is celebrating National Business Women's Week, look at a shelf of books. They ar...
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Madison Social Security Office Manager

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor...
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High School Seniors Representing Edgewood

Date: 11 14 1950
Description: Six Edgewood High School seniors who represented their school at a symposium at St. John's Catholic high school in Milwaukee posing for a portrait in a lib...
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Doris Harper with Grandchildren

Date: 11 22 1950
Description: Mrs. Carl S. (Doris) Harper of 3 Cambridge Road is pictured with her two granddaughters, Susan, age one and a half (left), and Catherine, three and a half,...
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Chanuka Book and Symbol Display

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: Rabbi Max A. Lipshitz (left) and sexton Abraham Gazevitz observe a display of books and symbols in the lobby of Beth Israel center that will be on display ...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Mabel Lewis reading to Billy McCord, patient.
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Ernst Friedlander Family in Home

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Portrait of Ernst and Marie Friedlander with their baby, Helen, in the living room of their home that Ernst designed. The room includes a stone wall firepl...
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Ernst Friedlander House

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: View of the dining room in the Ernst Friedlander house. The room features wood paneling, a dining table folded out of the wall, a view of the kitchen throu...
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Ernst Friedlander Dining Table

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Interior view of the Ernst Friedlander home, including a table folded into a wall, built-in shelves, and a Mid-Century modern lamp.
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Three people discuss the upcoming Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" to benefit the professional women in journalism fraternity's writing aides pr...
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Two auctioneers posing with books to be auctioned off at the Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that will benefit the professional women in journa...
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: A woman reads to two children at the First Unitarian Church on University Bay Drive prior to the upcoming Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that ...

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