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Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Photograph

Indian Protest

Date: 08 02 1971
Description: Site of a demonstration by Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa against the Northern States Power Company dam on the Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County. There is an A...
Photograph

United Service Organization Club

Date: 
Description: A view of the ballroom of the operating Jewish Agency Board of the United Service Organization Club, a nonprofit organization that provides morale and recr...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Wiener Roasts

Date: 07 18 1940
Description: Page from the log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House. Trip participants were Anita Genna, Florence Quartuccio, Lily Caruso, Franc...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: The Little Housekeepers

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls in the T.T. Club performing household duties. One image shows club members practicing bathing ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: Cooking and Making Beds

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images of T.T. Club members. On image shows girls using a hand beater and stirring a pot on the ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: A Swell Time

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two T.T. Club images, one of two girls tending to another girl who is in bed ("and a tray for Katie"...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Afghan for Red Cross

Date: 1941
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Preparing Vases - U.S.O.

Date: 1943
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group.
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Adult Sewing Group

Date: 1946
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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman Pinning Pattern

Date: 1946
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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman at Sewing Machine

Date: 1946
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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House: Boys in Meal Line at Camp

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han...
Photograph

Woodworking Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 
Description: Boys working on various stages of woodwork projects, with two boys in the foreground kneeling by some wooden toy animals with jointed limbs. The settlement...
Photograph

Camp Fire Girls at Neighborhood House

Date: 
Description: Group of girls sitting or standing around a table that is covered with paper and containers of paint, holding brushes and small objects they are painting. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents Lunch Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed knife, fork, and spoon crossed o...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Ladies' Sewing Club

Date: 1956
Description: Group of Ladies' Sewing Club women posing under a tapestry at Neighborhood House.

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