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| Description: | Interior of the bar room at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. Waiters, bartenders, and patrons stand around the bar, decorated in the Old World style. |
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| Description: | People stand at the gate to the ten-acre Monticello Amusement Park. The arched entrance is decorated with various shapes, windmills, towers, and flags. Fen... |
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| Description: | Entrance to Bug House Amusement Park (?). View features several people standing in front of the entrance to the building, which features elaborate paintin... |
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| Description: | People surround decorated booths at the annual Woodstock Library Fair. |
| Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the rosemaling class of the Shorewood Hills Community League sitting around a table. Shown are Karl K. Reese, the instructor, and Beatrice Cartw... |
| Date: | 07 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred T. Cruse displays seven examples of her heavily decorated handmade velvet Christmas stockings, which she sells nation-wide and which retail for $... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Reinhard Grulke received this horse and carriage cutout as a gift. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood. |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This photograph depicts the final step of pasting the design onto the tray with a small br... |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This is one of two images of decoupage process steps. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Burkhart holds a box on which she has appliqued gold paper and inlaid various colored stones. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo... |
| Date: | 10 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Kent Kildow and Larry Brown are shown adding an extra loop of paper ribbon to the spooky figure on the band stand. Other paper decorations include skeleton... |
| Date: | 11 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Four teenage girls sitting at a table while making decorations for the formal holiday dance sponsored by the Tri-Hi and CDC sororities at Madison West High... |
| Date: | 12 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Russell (Fern) Fowler sits by her entry for the fifth annual "Holiday House" Christmas flower show at the Woman's Club building. She represented the M... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild informal lunch takes place in the recreation room of Doris Brobst's home at 211 Lathrop Street. Left to right: Janet Washa, Louise Lawton... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Little Garden Club members Pearl Nordeen and Lydia Shafer posing with their floral arrangement at the Red Cross office. |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | West Side Garden Club member and Red Cross Gray lady therapist Christina Dana is shown with a floral arrangement used in helping Mendota State Hospital pat... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor... |
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