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Woman with Dollhouse

Date: 11 14 1955
Description: Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse.
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Kern Family at the Supper Table

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table.
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Four Generations of Family Females

Date: 03 27 1948
Description: A four-generation group portrait of three women with an infant. Taken for Mrs. Bakken.
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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Madison Hadassah Group Style Show

Date: 04 17 1951
Description: Mrs. J.J. (Helen) Sinagub (left), Mrs. Harry M. (Esther) Sweet (sitting), and Mrs. Bernard Rabinovitz, are displaying some informal clothes designed by stu...
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Daisy and L.C. Bates

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Description: Informal portrait of Daisy and L.C. Bates seated in front of a curtain.
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Arthur J. Gafke Residence

Date: 02 13 1952
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Arthur J. Gafke, seated in the living room of her octagon home in rural Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
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Mrs. Steensland

Date: 1899
Description: Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be...
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Halle Steensland at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street.
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William Elwell Middleton

Date: 1910
Description: William Middleton, dressed as a chef, poses holding a bowl on a plate. He is wearing pince-nez glasses.
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William Middleton

Date: 1910
Description: A seated portrait of William Elwell Middleton, wearing a suit.
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Mother and Son

Date: 12 1900
Description: Uncropped portrait of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison and her son Ben, who was later better known by his stage name, Ben Bergor.
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United Steelworkers Convention Resolutions Committee

Date: 08 24 1946
Description: Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro...
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Violette Wartzok

Date: 02 11 1954
Description: Violette Wartzok demonstrates a procedure in the drapery-making class at the Madison Vocational and Adult School.
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Commandos L Meeting with Radio

Date: 1963
Description: Meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L. Men are sitting and standing around a kitchen table with a radio receiver and transmitter. Tony Cuesta is sit...
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West Side Optimist Club Contest Winners

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Group portrait of Jeffrey Hansen (left), Harold Joyce, and winner James R. Green, finalists in the oratorical contest sponsored by the West Side Optimist C...
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St. Raphael School Class Reunion

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Eleven of the thirteen eighth grade boys who graduated from St. Raphael school in 1919 pose for a group picture at a 35-year reunion.
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Schultz Before the Committee

Date: 03 06 1986
Description: Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan Administration (second from the left) testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Leaning fo...
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William R. Odell Sitting at Desk

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of William Rice Odell sitting at his desk. A curtain on a window in the background bears the International Harvester Company logo. Odell graduated...
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Haywood Family

Date: 02 15 1956
Description: Myrtle Haywood and her 6-month old son, Skip, posing for a happy picture after she recovered from cataract surgery, and the baby recovered from prickly hea...

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