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| Date: | 02 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Methodist Bishop Northcott posing with his collection of gavels. |
| Date: | 11 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Mayme Peterson (Mrs. Alf), seated at table at East Side Women's Club hobby show with her handicrafts, including a pine needle basket. |
| Date: | 11 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Helen Quale (Mrs. O.H.) and Leatha Premo (Mrs. Lewis W.) with their china collection at the East Side Women's Club Hobby Show. |
| Date: | 11 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Frieda Luloff (Mrs. Harold L.) with her collection of Dresden and German bisque figurines at the East Side Women's Hobby Show. |
| Date: | 03 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Antique dealer Helena Greenheck, Highway 130, standing in front of a collection of glassware. |
| Date: | 03 10 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the furniture in the dining room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Brainard. The home was formerly the 1878 "old Don Johnson farm" in Bear Valley wh... |
| Date: | 09 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Sets of buttons in display boxes are arranged in the Madison Button Club store window display. |
| Date: | 11 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Joe Osterle, 2411 Monroe Street, is pictured with his collection of handmade Japanese dolls. Mr. Osterle, a Korean War veteran, collected the dolls and oth... |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | Four-year-old baseball enthusiast "Hoppy " Corcoran, center, enjoys a laugh with Wisconsin State Journal columnist Roundy Coughlin, right. Looking o... |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | Four-year-old baseball enthusiast Tommy "Hoppy" Corcoran is pictured in his baseball uniform. "Hoppy," named for one of his heroes, Hopalong Cassidy, has a... |
| Date: | 02 13 1952 |
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| Description: | View of an antique chest of drawers in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Gafke in rural Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Hanging over the chest are four antique ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank Vaughn holding a cut work tablecloth at the sale of the late Miss Catherine Corscot's antique collection. It was held in the Guild Hall in Grace... |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a display of Red Block glass from the antique collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot. |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | A seven-piece chamber set from the antique collection of Miss Catherine Corscot. The sale of her items was held in Guild Hall at Grace Episcopal Church, 6 ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | An antique captain's desk from the collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot. The sale of her items was held in Guild Hall at Grace Episcopal Church, 6... |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Earl (Josephine) Wheeler holds an old lusterware pitcher from the antique collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot. |
| Date: | 08 04 1952 |
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| Description: | An ornate chair from the antique collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot. |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles (Jeanette) Kincaid of 2122 Vilas Avenue is shown with a display of some of her playing card collection. Mrs. Kincaid has collected more than 4... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ernest B. Steen of 2205 Lakeland Avenue, wife of new pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, demonstrates a Christmas custom by displaying her bell collect... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Living room of the C.S. Gonstead home in Mt. Horeb, designed by Madison architect Herbert Fritz, built in 1951, and severely damaged by fire in 1991. The a... |
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