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Rundell's Display Window

Date: 12 15 1948
Description: Display window at Rundell's, a men's clothing store at 15 East Main Street. The display window is decorated with Christmas wreaths. The display features va...
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Allis School Pre-School and Kindergarten Club

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Members of the Allis School Pre-School and Kindergarten club in the school auditorium refinishing old toys and making other Christmas gifts for sick and ne...
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Sorority Christmas Party for Children

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Two Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority members with group of children from the Washington Orthopedic School during a Christmas party. Sorority members are at left,...
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Six Members of the East Side Women's Club

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Six members of the East Side Women's Club with a dollhouse to be given to the chi:ldren at the Morningside sanatorium. Seated in front, left to right, are ...
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Bashford Methodist Church Party

Date: 12 15 1948
Description: Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street.
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J. Robert Taylor Christmas Card

Date: 1914
Description: A Christmas card with oval family portraits of (from top left clockwise) Alma Reinhardt-Taylor, Ellen Taylor-Higgins, Donna Taylor-Adams, Fred Taylor, and ...
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Radio Sponsored Merry Christmas Poster

Date: 12 1971
Description: Poster commissioned by Community Service Radio Inc., WLVE, based in Baraboo and Madison and by Newsradio WIBU based in Poynette. Features a cartoon of Sant...
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Tabletop Nativity Scene

Date: 12 17 1948
Description: A Christmas nativity scene set up on a table in the home of Mrs. Mathilda Butler, 2642 East Dayton Street. She and her three children have been setting thi...
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Children's Christmas Party

Date: 12 17 1948
Description: Children of Milwaukee Railroad employees sitting near a Christmas tree where a man sitting in a chair is dressed as Santa Claus. They are at the Milwaukee ...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas Committee

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: A number of Junior Chamber of Commmerce Christmas Committee members gathered around a table. From left to right they are: Robert Wegner, Mrs. Elmer Cirves,...
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Mrs. John C. Weaver and Son

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Mrs. John Carrier Weaver, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and her two-year-old son, Andrew, sitting by the Christmas tree while visiting in the home of Professor A...
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JCC "Can-Can" Line

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Twelve members of the JCC auxiliary "Can-Can" line. They performed at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas dinner dance.
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Shorewood Hills School Music Students

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Shorewood Hills music students posed with their string instruments at a Christmas caroling party in the home of Mrs. Keys (Freda) Winterble, 901 University...
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Mop Heads

Date: 12 26 1948
Description: Top-hatted master of ceremonies, Stanton Stavrum, looks on as Robert Smith, Charles Van Deitz, and Hugh Benidict in mop wigs and dresses, rehearse singing ...
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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Three volunteers distributing Christmas gifts at the Wisconsin State Journal Empty Stocking Toy Depot. Volunteers, left to right: Mrs. F.R. (Alice)...
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John Steinhaus Children

Date: 12 24 1948
Description: John Steinhaus's children (a boy and a girl) sitting on Santa's lap.
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Holiday Benefit Dance

Date: 11 27 1948
Description: Arriving for the holiday benefit dance for the young marrieds and college age crowd at the Turner Hall are Robert Hamilton of Maple Bluff and Rae Marie Roc...
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Holiday Benefit Dance

Date: 12 26 1948
Description: Three couples in front of two Christmas trees at the holiday benefit dance held at the Turner Hall. The seated girls are, from left, Patricia Albrecht, Jul...
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Holiday Benefit Dance

Date: 12 27 1948
Description: Two couples at the punch bowl during the holiday benefit dance at the Turner Hall. From left are Gail Snyder, Footville; John Fox, Madison; Margot Schmidt,...
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Santa Claus and Children

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: Children crowded around Santa Claus at the annual East Side community Christmas tree celebration in Riverside Park.

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