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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ...
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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l...
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Manchester's Advertising Department Views Printing Press

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Minnie Hastings enjoying a cup of punch and some cookies at the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church. It wa...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Helen Rader, who is vice-president of the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church, enjoys the view of Lake Mendota with Mrs. Milton Nichols of Reedsb...
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Red Cross Blood Donor

Date: 08 01 1957
Description: Mrs. J. Leonard Brook, from Shepley, England, is shown having her blood pressure checked by Joan Dufresne, a Red Cross nurse. Mrs. Brook's hostess (and di...
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Democratic Party State Convention

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: An unidentified delegate in support of Philleo Nash taking a catnap during the Democratic Party State Convention at Hotel Loraine.
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Christmas Shoppers on the Capitol Square

Date: 11 29 1957
Description: Christmas shoppers crowd the Capitol Square on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Women shoppers are seen at the corner of State Street, Carroll Street and W....
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: A teacher from Baraboo holding up a parking ticket she had received, as her colleagues from Baraboo are standing nearby, smiling and pointing. The side of ...
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Easter Bonnets

Date: 04 06 1958
Description: 3-year-old Betsy Cashin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cashin, is shown in dress and gloves, wearing her Easter bonnet and holding a matching purse in fr...
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Winnipeg Y-Teens Visit Madison

Date: 04 08 1958
Description: Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ...
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A Day 'With a County Home Agent"

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Kathleen Russell preparing to leave her office in the Iowa County Courthouse in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
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Daughters of the Revolution Officers

Date: 05 07 1958
Description: A group portrait of the officers of the John Bell chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. Seated in front are Regent Nita Howard in the middle, with vi...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: Two worried-looking high school musicians look for their names and judges' ratings. "Scanning the bulletin board outside Music hall are George Packard, Por...
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Women Hugging Two Children on Capitol Square

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: An unidentified woman hugging two children while standing on the Capitol Square across the street from the Park Hotel. At the corner of the Park Hotel on t...
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We Saw You . . . at Who's New Luncheon

Date: 05 27 1958
Description: Members of the Who's New Club for new women residents of Madison held their annual spring luncheon at the Nakoma Country Club. Shown are members greeting t...
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New Commemorative Stamp Issued

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: George and Sara Johnson holding a strip of 3 cent Gunston Hall commemorative stamps featuring the home built in 1758 for George Mason. He was the author of...
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Foster Mothers Tea

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Wisconsin's first lady, Helen Thomson (left), greets three of the foster mothers who were honored at a tea in the executive mansion. Being greeted are Evel...
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Foster Mothers Tea

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Mrs. Marvel Albright (right), a Dane county social worker, visits with Margaret Olson (Madison) and Mrs. Charles Berend (DeForest) at a tea for Dane county...
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Foster Mothers Tea

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Three members of the Woman's Club of Madison that presided at the tea for foster mothers of Dane county at the Wisconsin executives' mansion. Pictured are ...

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