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Accident at East Side Festival

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Photograph of Lois Bailey, who was thrown from the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, suffering injuries to her face and head.
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Five members of the Madison Woman's Club. Left to right, Mrs. H.J. (Dorothy) Schubert, Mrs. L.L. (Gertrude) North, Mrs. C.K. (Helen) Schubert, Mrs. Georg...
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Polio Survey

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the Na...
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Richard Upson

Date: 08 10 1944
Description: Richard Upson, ten-months-old, with portrait of his father in background, Lieutenant Commander Richard Upson, who is missing in action overseas.
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Getting Ready for College

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Nancy Marshall, Marianne Havey, Susan Anderson and Karen Brumm, sitting in the home of Richard H. Marshall, 175 Lakewood Boulevard, Maple Bluff, making pla...
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Getting Ready for College

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Virginia Tormey, a senior at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., with her sister, Betrice, who is entering the same school as a freshman. They are shown ...
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Mrs. Albert Quentmeyer and Two Foster Children

Date: 08 12 1944
Description: Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t...
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Getting Ready for College

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Perry Neff, who will be attending Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and his sister, Ruth Rhea Neff, who will be attending Ferry Hall in Lake Fo...
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Arthur G. Tappen

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J...
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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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"We Say What We Think Club"

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: WIBA radio personalities, Selma (Mrs. Cornelius) Sorenson, Sibylle (Mrs. George) Mitchell, Isabel (Mrs. August) Baumann, Grace (Mrs. John) Langer, and Ruth...
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Bishop Schuyler E. Garth

Date: 09 14 1944
Description: Rev. Doctor Schuyler E. Garth, newly appointed Methodist Bishop for the Wisconsin area, seated at a desk.
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Mrs. Portia Horning and Daughter

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: Mrs. Roger O. Hornig (Portia Stone), holding daughter Pamela. Mrs. Horning and her daughter are staying with her mother, Mrs. Charles H. Stone, at Kennedy ...
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Vocational School Aptitude Testing

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Two students, Stanley Stemp Jr., Central High School, and Victor Brockmiller Jr., West High School, assemble mechanical devices as part of the vocational a...
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Kathryn Piper

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob...
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Tea at the Governor's Residence

Date: 10 01 1944
Description: Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th...
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M. Pearl Guynes

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss M. Pearl Guynes, member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and recently appointed sergeant of the Madison Police Department, sitting at her...
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Service Group Officers

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president of the Madison Army Officers' Wives Club, and Mrs. Philip Affatica, president of the Madison Enlisted Men's Wives Cl...
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Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women and three children at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Left to right are Mrs....

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