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| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | William Thorp and Hattie Reed bow their heads in prayer before Thanksgiving dinner is served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its Sunset Club. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Date: | 12 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Westra is serving punch at a Christmas party to three residents of the Dane County Home. The party was sponsored by the Madison Association of Un... |
| Date: | 10 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas... |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| 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 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Gillin is sitting behind a table with a display of 21 pairs of mittens of various sizes with wrist stripes that she knitted to donate to The Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 06 11 1957 |
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| Description: | At left is Mrs. Amy Levander (left) sitting with her 98-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Ella Stevenson, and her mother, Mrs. W.G. Gerlach, during a three-genera... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Damres (left), home matron, and Helen Antoine, Mendota Garden Club member, pass out gifts during a Christmas party for residents of the Oakwood L... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Vivian Schleck (left), member of the Mendota Garden Club, lights a candle, and Mrs. Alvin Sonnenberg, member of the Little Garden Clubs, serves cookies du... |
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| Description: | Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings, the quick-step dried and gone to the bone. Embrace the wall and face away from trouble in the winter ... |
| Date: | 05 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Marie Ackley is sweeping the floor of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund. She is working as a health aide in a new Visiting Nurse Service program an... |
| Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged scenario of a lonely and isolated elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by a fireplace and spinning wheel. "Aunt Jennie" is portrayed by Margueri... |
| Date: | 09 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Henrietta Markham, who won second place for her recipe for apricot bisque in the Wisconsin State Journal cookbook contest. |
| Date: | 05 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Annie Barnes displays a wide lace collar (called a bertha) that was part of her wedding dress. She had handmade it herself in six weeks using sewing needle... |
| Date: | 11 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary B. Cowdin (Granny), Mary C. Metz and Ralph W. Metz financed and built a house at 4725 Lafayette Drive with a full apartment for Granny and the rest of... |
| Date: | 11 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary B. Cowdin is standing by a two-burner stove, and pouring hot water into a 'one cup' coffee maker. She resides in her own apartment within her daughter... |
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