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| Date: | 11 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Naval Officers and Wives Club annual Christmas dinner dance featuring a Hawaiian Christmas theme, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Loraine. Making tabl... |
| Date: | 11 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Naval Officers and Wives Club annual Christmas dinner dance featuring a Hawaiian Christmas theme, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Loraine. Mrs. Robert... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA... |
| 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: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Left to right: friend Sophie, Josef and Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in their home in Amsterdam. The tablecloth was made by Mrs. Bader and retu... |
| Date: | 12 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Two couples at the punch bowl during the holiday benefit dance at the Turner Hall. From left are Gail Snyder, Footville; John Fox, Madison; Margot Schmidt,... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of... |
| Date: | 01 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Florence Brewer, seated, from England, learning sewing from Helen John, with Richard W. Bardwell, director of Madison Vocational and Adult Education School... |
| Date: | 01 17 1949 |
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| Description: | L.A. Toner,of Miami, Florida, is shown in his Wisconsin General hospital bed cutting his surprise birthday chocolate cake as his wife looks on. Mrs. Toner ... |
| Date: | 01 21 1949 |
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| Description: | At the tea table are officers of the Who's New Club who are celebrating the 14th anniversary of the organization. Left to right: Mrs. Fred (Beulah) Reeth, ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 01 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a salad exhibit. Includes a pickled fish mold surrounded with deviled eggs and parsley prepared by Carson Gulley's cooking class. |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | People examining a home economics exhibit at the Farm and Home Week at the University of Wisconsin. From left are Ruth E. Davis, Port Washington; Mrs. Otto... |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Louise Zieske in her kitchen demonstrating how to make her cheese-rice casserole, which was selected as best of 517 entries in the "Wisconsin State Journal... |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students Bob Steinhagen, Milwaukee, Connie Prentice, West Bend, and John Williams, La Crosse, making some of the elaborate decorati... |
| Date: | 02 04 1949 |
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| Description: | King Clayton Hahn, Milwaukee, and Queen Violet Norrman, Williams Bay, at the head table of the dinner for the Junior Prom at the Great Hall of the Memorial... |
| Date: | 02 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Professors Vernon Carstensen (left) and Merle Curti, with their wives, cutting the ceremonial cake at the testimonial luncheon in their honor as authors of... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Self-portrait of Saul Sorrin, area director of the International Refugee Organization, dining at his former house in Munich. Saul Sorrin was interviewed... |
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