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| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
| Date: | 11 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. |
| Date: | 03 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Zelma Stevenson spoon-feeding Jane, a 19-month-old foster child residing at the Stevenson home at 718 West Main Street. Mrs. Stevenson is a member of the f... |
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| Description: | Jack Sanders, Lewis Arms's co-worker at Greyhound, sits on a curb on Brearly Street to eat his lunch. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three women working on sewing pattern pieces: two women are sitting at a table with a box of patter... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo... |
| Date: | 10 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the De Porres Guild make preparations for the upcoming bazaar. Proceeds will benefit the Blessed Martin Guild which conducts social, recreationa... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms pouring himself a drink at his birthday party. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms is holding a slice of his birthday cake, and is surrounded by three of his children. From left to right are Rita, Lewis, Mamie, and Paul. |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J... |
| Date: | 05 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Bonita Gill, Marcia Gulrud, Jeanette Braxton, and Ann Gulrud admiring the dolls they made dresses for during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The do... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres... |
| Date: | 07 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har... |
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