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| Date: | 07 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 02 17 1949 |
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| Description: | Harold Lautz, sergeant-at-arms for the annual Lutheran Men's Club "Sweetheart's Dinner" held in the Lutheran Memorial Church, 1021 University Avenue. Mr. L... |
| Date: | 11 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irvine (Marg) Elliott of 4601 Wallace Avenue, co-chairman of the "Party Fixins' booth at the Lake Edge Congregational Church bazaar, wears the cap and... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | "Evangeline Koll and Arlene Beck ride the float in the Allenton Firemen's Picnic Parade." |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
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| Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Jennie Krueger standing on stones next to a spinning wheel and yarn winder placed outside a barn. She is wearing her great-grandmother's traditional Pomera... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tille Faulkman, standing, and Sarah Krueger, are sitting behind a spinning wheel and a yarn winder in the open doorway of a barn. Both women are wearing tr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tille Faulkman standing in a barn with a spinning wheel and two yarn winders. She is dressed in traditional Pomeranian attire. A handmade basket filled wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sarah and Florentina Krueger standing in front of a barn in costume. Sarah is dressed in traditional Pomeranian attire and is holding a bucket and milking... |
| 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... |
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