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| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert (Dorothy L.) Sirney, standing in front of a curtain and wearing a Norwegian costume. She is holding a wooden platter she has decorated with ros... |
| Date: | 03 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison artist Mrs. Russell (Fern) Fowler, 3315 Blackhawk Drive, with a display of her hand-painted china Easter eggs. The eggs were popular during the Vic... |
| Date: | 12 13 1951 |
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| Description: | Two teenage girls are placing a garland on an artificial Christmas tree in front of a graphic depicting Santa in a sleigh holding a bag of presents. They a... |
| 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: | 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 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: | 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: | 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: | 04 28 1958 |
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| Description: | John Eustice poses with a display of his china patterns. A graduate of University of Wisconsin and New York State College of Ceramics, John specializes in ... |
| Date: | 10 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Kate Schultz is shown with a sport coat she made for her husband from fabric that she wove. She also hooked the rug at her feet, upholstered the chair she ... |
| Date: | 10 18 1960 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral poses with an ancient Chinese screen at his shop, Gulesserian's, on State Street in Madison. He bought the screen, said to be over three-hun... |
| Date: | 06 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Mora Lincoln with one of her flower arrangements. She regularly gives lessons and demonstrations on the art of arranging flowers. |
| Date: | 10 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Fourteen individuals, or schools, are honored by the Governor's Council of the Arts at a Governor's Executive Residence dinner. The recipients are honored ... |
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| Description: | Glassblower Norman Erway looking at small glass horse figurines set on a table in front of him. |
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| Description: | The daughters of glassblowers Norman and Wilma Erway holding glass art pieces. |
| Date: | 11 30 1960 |
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| Description: | Helping to plan a Christmas party for the Daughters of Demeter is decorations chairman Nancy Knight. She will decorate with greens in contemporary style. |
| Date: | 01 27 1961 |
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| Description: | One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is Marion Brown st... |
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