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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two young women talking in a bedroom. One is packing or unpacking clothes into a travel bag. A copy of Herbert Quick's "Vandemark's Folly" is among the boo... |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 13 1955 |
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| Description: | Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of patients in formal dress gathering around a long table for dinner at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bisho... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A fashion show with models from various Madison credit unions is presented at a luncheon given at the Blackhawk County Club for wives who accompanied their... |
| Date: | 10 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of attendees of the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Members of the decorating committee ... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Vice President Hosni Mubarak seated at the far right with a delegation of congressional leaders. Congressman David R. Ob... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Cadle seated in a bedroom, looking out a window. On the table in front of her is a cup and saucer. |
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| Description: | Front cover, bar menu, and trifold overleaf illustration from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant. On the cover is an illustration of the restaurant's wooden pla... |
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| Description: | Jessie Jack Hooper sitting in a rocking chair at her home at 669 Algoma Street in front of two windows with heavy drapes and lace curtains. She is stitchin... |
| Date: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor family portrait of Mary Turvill McConnell, Elizabeth Turvill Wood, and Jessie Turvill Thwaites. They are sitting on a porch in front of windows wit... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nina Dousman with children and house party guests in the dining room at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families.... |
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| Description: | Shirley Abrahamson in her kitchen preparing Minute Rice. |
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