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| Date: | 09 30 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV. |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
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| Description: | Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| Date: | 04 29 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman outdoors next to a house standing over a large, black pot, possibly doing laundry. Four children are playing around the woman near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children gathered around a table outdoors. They appear to be serving food out of bowls and containers placed on a table. |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Camper Jeanette Braxton prepares to grill food at an outdoor fireplace as one of the activities at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ... |
| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Stanley Zuckerman, Lloyd Barbee, Jackie Robinson, and David Obey are photographed as they are having a conversation. Zuckerman holds a cup, spoon and sauce... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass... |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley and Louie Shepard cooking out along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. |
| Date: | 06 30 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing wearing a vest, furry hat and headband, American Flag cape and holding a tin of sardines in front of a crowd sitting at a r... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J... |
| Date: | 05 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Bonita Gill, Marcia Gulrud, Jeanette Braxton, and Ann Gulrud admiring the dolls they made dresses for during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The do... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har... |
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