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Group Portrait of Women

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of nineteen women standing and sitting behind a table, taken for Bess Weiner (?).
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National Office Management Association Meeting

Date: 11 11 1953
Description: Left to right, Fred Broker, Ardis Barr & Mary Parker of the Madison Business College visiting during dinner at the one meeting of the year when the Madison...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Stanley Beck, wife of a University of Wisconsin professor stricken with polio, talking with Marjorie Hagan, the city chairman of the National Foundati...
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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Lloyd Hansen is acting as a sal...
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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: John and Eleanor Purcell enjoying the meal at the Rennebohm Drug Store annual Christmas party at the Catholic Community Center. The published photo was cro...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: As preparation for speech class at the Madison Vocational School, Olga Toltzien is reading from The American Observer.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Armanda Schmelzer expressing a thought during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service preparing swabs to be used in the hospital. Left to right: Hazel Teasd...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service preparing items to be used in the hospital. Preparing bandages are Mrs...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service. Visiting while making swabs are, left to right: Mrs. David Johnson, E...
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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Banquet chairman Gwendolyn Hinrichs and daughter, Scherie Lynn, discuss the program with program chairman, Sadie Munson, at the East Side Women's club banq...
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: West High school students, Alice Ragatz and Roberta Caldwell, at a rehearsal for the PTA-sponsored production of "Ship Ahoy" put on to raise money for unde...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads & Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth cent...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth centur...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Rebekah Cochran (center), who lived on 1118 Seminole Highway, is pointing to a print as Professor James Watrous (right) of the U.W. Art History Department ...

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