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Clara Middleton

Date: 1900
Description: Clara Middleton poses seated in a chair, reading. She is wearing a narrow fur stole over her shoulder.
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Daisy Bates with School Children

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Description: Daisy Bates signs autographs for school children who attended the Freedom Rally at Memorial High School where Bates, "the First Lady of Little Rock," was a...
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Woman Being Fingerprinted After Raid

Date: 08 05 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathleen Napoli, held a "keeper of a house of ill fame," as she was finger printed by an FBI Agent on Wednesday. Her husband, Dominic, is in the Army....
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Madison Women's Service Club Presidents

Date: 02 16 1954
Description: Presidents of the three Madison service clubs for executive women confer on plans for the annual joint meeting of the three clubs. From left to right are: ...
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston

Date: 1895
Description: Cabinet card portrait of Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947), wife of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. She is wearing a seal ...
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Disabled American Veterans Officer Installation

Date: 04 04 1954
Description: Three members of the Ladies auxiliary sitting together while talking. They are Leatha Fuller, a department commander of the auxiliary, Mrs. Herb Pommerenin...
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Alpha Phi Sorority Benefit Dessert Party

Date: 04 12 1954
Description: Alpha Phi Mother's Club sponsors an Alpha Phi sorority musical program as a benefit party. Seated in foreground: Arrietta Hastings, president of the Mother...
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Alice in Dairyland with Chocolate Milk

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Alice in Dairyland and an unidentified man toast glasses of chocolate milk while seated in a luncheon booth at Rennobahm's drug store. An advertising poste...
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Woman Posing with Dog

Date: 1888
Description: Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug a...
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Alexander Simplot and His Wife

Date: 1866
Description: Tintype of Alexander Simplot, sitting, and his wife, standing, who is wearing a fashionable hat and coat and holding a fur muff.
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Sportsmen's Bar

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "Sportsmen's Bar — Ed Lenz, Prop."
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American Business Women's Association

Date: 09 17 1954
Description: Group portrait of committee members for the semi-annual "Hand of Friendship" membership drive tea for the Wisconsin chapter of the American Business Women'...
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Dorothy Jardon in "The Merry-Go-Round"

Date: 1908
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Luncheon

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Mrs. John Lobb, newly elected...
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Delta Delta Delta Sorority State Day Meeting

Date: 05 02 1955
Description: Barbara Boesel pins an orchid on national director Mrs. H.J. Potts of Waukesha during a Delta Delta Delta Sorority State Day meeting. Looking on is Mrs. W....
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Jaycette Style Show Models

Date: 02 28 1956
Description: Betty Geisler, representing the Blackhawk Country Club Women's Organization, models fashion for the 'smart clubwomen.' The proceeds of the style shows were...
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Ladies Municipal Bowling Association Spring Luncheon

Date: 03 27 1956
Description: Among the women who helped plan the Ladies Municipal Bowling Association Spring Luncheon are, from left: Virginia Strand, toastmistress; Mrs John Kreiter, ...
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Successful Bird Hunt

Date: 1960
Description: A man holds a wood stretcher/fleshing beam near his game.
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Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women

Date: 04 10 1956
Description: Three women from the Madison area attend the second annual convention of the Madison diocesan Council of Catholic Women held at Our Lady Queen of Peace Ca...

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