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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Arlene Find...
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Alice Holme...
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West Side Garden Club Holiday House Tea

Date: 12 04 1951
Description: Four members of the West Side Garden Club examining Christmas holiday table decorations at their Holiday House Tea. Left to right are Mrs. Wilfred J. Harr...
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U.W. Student Service Projects

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Residents of Elizabeth Waters Dormitory make stuffed toys for Empty Stocking Club and tray favors for patients at Madison General Hospital. Left to right: ...
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University of Wisconsin Service League Junior Division Activities

Date: 01 22 1952
Description: The junior division of the University of Wisconsin Service League for faculty wives has a number of interest groups including handicrafts, rosemaling, text...
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University of Wisconsin Service League Junior Division Activities

Date: 01 22 1952
Description: The junior division of the University of Wisconsin Service League for faculty wives has a number of interest groups including the handicrafts group. Mrs. W...
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 21 1952
Description: Sisters Christine and Karen Nielsen make yarn rope during craft time at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp.
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Madison Art Association Craft Fair

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Three women serving as jurors of acceptance for the Madison Art Association craft fair. Left to right: Professor Helen Allen, U.W. Department of Related Ar...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 06 07 1953
Description: Mrs. Albert H. (Kath) Mayer works as one of the Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross and pours a mold in the ceramics room in the occupational therapy...
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YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 04 1953
Description: A scene from YWCA's day camp at Camp Wakonda, located on a shore of Lake Mendota. During craft time, Gerald Peck, James Foster, and Russell Bright paint sm...
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Fern Fowler Makes Christmas Candles

Date: 11 05 1953
Description: Portrait of Fern Fowler, WMTV show host, with Christmas candles that she made.
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Madison Art Association Craft Exhibition

Date: 01 06 1954
Description: Elizabeth B. Pohle (left) and Mary Ann Ackermann sit amongst artwork by Cecil Strawn and Aaron Bohrod at the Madison Art Association Craft Exhibition at Fr...
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Decoupage Art

Date: 04 12 1954
Description: Helen Burkhart holds a box on which she has appliqued gold paper and inlaid various colored stones.
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United Givers Campaign

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: Tim Robbins and John Christensen show their craft projects at the YMCA to Robert W. Anthony (right), the associate chairman of the 1954 United Givers Campa...
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Edna Bullard's Hooked Rug

Date: 10 12 1954
Description: View of Edna Bullard's latest hooked rug hanging on the wall at her home. It was her 35th creation.
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Queen of Peace Bazaar

Date: 11 13 1954
Description: Women's Catholic Order of Foresters Court 597 at Madison's Our Lady Queen of Peace bazaar committee admire articles that will be on sale. From left are: an...
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Louise Frye and her three children prepare for Christmas by making Christmas tree decorations. Left to right: Timothy, age 9; Jeffery, age 7; Louise and El...
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Four-year-old Tommy, son of Robert and Mary Ela, makes a candle holder from modeling clay as a Christmas gift for his mother.
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Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group

Date: 01 18 1955
Description: Mrs. Charles Watson is shown with her rosemaled plate during the Madison Art Guild Crafts Group exchange.
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Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group

Date: 01 18 1955
Description: Muriel Chapman shows her hand-made pendant necklace to Winfried Guenther during the Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group idea exchange.

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