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| Date: | 11 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Service league members of Christ Presbyterian Church prepare their "Home for the Holidays" tour, boutique, and bake sale. Many of the items to be shown in ... |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | A holiday tree made by Martha Hart decorates a table. The tree is accented with leaves and boughs around a cone-shaped styrofoam base, with light green osa... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 12 21 1963 |
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| Description: | Unidentified youngster shown enjoying breakfast with Santa at Manchester's Department Store. |
| Date: | 12 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of several people sitting or standing around a table with a meal displayed on it. All the women, and one man, are folding their hands as if ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Four women and two men are sitting at a dining table. Forest Middleton, on the far left, is wearing a Japanese-style jacket. His wife, Leonore, is second f... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of smiling children posing with three adults. They are standing behind a table covered with baked goods, and Christmas decorations are on the wall ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Ponkratz girls sitting around the Christmas tree. Two girls are sitting on the left, with the older girl holding a doll, and the youn... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Charlene Bainbrough and Kathy Daly eating ice cream at Delta Tau Delta's Christmas party for children of the South Side Community Center. |
| Date: | 12 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Examining needlework on display at the Christmas tea for Dane County Homemaker Clubs is Mrs. Ted Kerbs (left) and Mrs. William Stohl, both of Sun Prairie. ... |
| Date: | 12 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Martha Jean Johnson, 6, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Everett F. Johnson is shown helping earn her weekly allowance by setting the table and doing other simple ... |
| Date: | 12 01 1957 |
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| Description: | One of the dozens of Madison baby-sitters who give part of their earnings to the Empty Stocking Club is 13-year-old Julie Reynoldson, daughter of Mrs. and ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Viewing Christmas displays are (left to right): Mrs Wallace Bondhus, Mt Horeb; Mrs. Henry Wechter, Cross Plains; and Mrs. Norton Urness, Black Earth. They ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ... |
| Date: | 12 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Karen Nielsen, a native from Denmark, lights candles in a Christmas decoration she made for her dinner table. |
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