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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ornaments from a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. These were combined with the "folders" (cards) and paper lace to create personalized Valentine's Day c... |
| Date: | 11 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Fern Fowler, WMTV show host, with Christmas candles that she made. |
| Date: | 01 06 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Burkhart holds a box on which she has appliqued gold paper and inlaid various colored stones. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A Christmas tree stand made by Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917), a cigarmaker, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is probably made of cigar boxes. Written on back:... |
| Date: | 07 21 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 12 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Edna Bullard's latest hooked rug hanging on the wall at her home. It was her 35th creation. |
| Date: | 11 13 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Watson is shown with her rosemaled plate during the Madison Art Guild Crafts Group exchange. |
| Date: | 01 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Muriel Chapman shows her hand-made pendant necklace to Winfried Guenther during the Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group idea exchange. |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Harold W. Rucks, of Edgerton sits in a wheel chair while working at a table jig saw. Rucks, who had been severely crippled for 17 years with rheumatiod art... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Herman Skolas sits in a wheelchair while weaving on his loom as his eight-year-old granddaughter, Deborah Culham of Stoughton, looks on approvingly. Skolas... |
| Date: | 04 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Three Phi Beta Phi alumnae members posing with Arrowcraft products. The sorority will be selling the products to benefit the Settlement School of Gatlenbur... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A decorated pumpkin serves as a table centerpiece. It is decorated with a face, a hat made of fresh flowers, and attached leaves for hair. |
| Date: | 11 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Ten members of the Madison Jaycettes decoration committee make preparations for the mid-year state convention of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. |
| Date: | 12 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Richard Marshall Jr. holds a cribbage board made from a walrus tusk, and has a pair of sealskin and fox fur moccasins his lap. Marshall served 18 months wi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor... |
| Date: | 03 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Mr. W.J. Haight and his wife Charlotte of Cambridge are sitting in front of their fireplace. Mr. Haight, chairman of the Cambridge Community Red Cross Driv... |
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