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New Housing Designs On Shore Acres Road

Date: 03 23 1950
Description: A woman decorates a modern dining-room. At right is a large movable wardrobe that the home owner may use as an adjustable room divider as the family needs ...
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Porter Butts House

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: Interior view of the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill, Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area, built in 1937. The seat...
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Girl Scout Leader Presentation

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: A book on Girl Souting by a Wisconsin author is presented to Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, for her Wisconsin library. Pictured during t...
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Ernst Friedlander Kitchen

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: View of a Mid-Century modern kitchen with built-in features, including a slide out table inside the home of Ernst Friedlander. The house was owner-designed...
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Philip C. and Kathleen Rosenthal House Dining Room

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Philip and Kathleen Rosenthal's salmon red-house in Shorewood Hills, designed by Milwaukee architect Alvin Jansama and built in the late 1940's, is on two ...
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Harold Baumgartner House Interior

Date: 01 03 1952
Description: Interior view of the recreation room in the house of Harold Baumgartner at 240 South Oak Street, featuring pine paneling on the walls, a brick fireplace an...
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Harold Baumgartner House in Reedsburg, Interior View

Date: 01 03 1952
Description: Dining room in the ranch-style home of Harold Baumgartner at 240 South Oak Street, showing dining table and chairs and a buffet.
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Wisconsin Dames

Date: 04 10 1952
Description: Two members of the Wisconsin Dames are Mrs. James Head, left, who is the chairman of the center and Mrs. Kendall King. The Dames maintain a permanent servi...
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Japanese Home Furnishings

Date: 09 14 1953
Description: The W.H. Wikoff residence, 34C University Houses, contains many Japanese furnishings. Mrs. Catherine (William H.) Wikoff is shown with a Japanese dish and ...
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Japanese Home Furnishings

Date: 09 14 1953
Description: The W.H. Wikoff residence, 34C University Houses, contains many Japanese furnishings. A hand-carved Japanese chest is shown with a teakwood sweetmeat box a...
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Japanese Home Furnishings

Date: 09 13 1953
Description: Japanese furnishings found in the W.H. Wikoff home, 34C University Houses, include a head warmer screen with an allover pattern of gold leaf.
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John and Marilyn Knutson Apartment

Date: 10 07 1953
Description: Interior view of the dining room in the apartment of John and Marilyn Knutson.
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John and Marilyn Knutson Apartment

Date: 10 07 1953
Description: A dining set standing inside the dining room in the apartment of John and Marilyn Knutson.
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Hendrickson's Modern Home Furnishing Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Slightly elevated interior view of fabric displays for draperies and slipcovers at Hendrickson's Modern Home Furnishing Store.
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Hendrickson's Modern Home Furnishing Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Interior view of the linoleum and tile department at Hendrickson's Modern Home Furnishing Store.
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Margaret Fliegel holds a book while sitting on her bed in front of an anatomy chart. She was a senior physical therapy student and a Easter Seal grant rec...
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Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Mrs. C.S. Gonstead sits next to the fireplace in her home (aka "El Clare" estate) at 602 South 2nd Street in Mt. Horeb. Madison architect Herbert Fritz des...
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Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Living room of the C.S. Gonstead home in Mt. Horeb, designed by Madison architect Herbert Fritz, built in 1951, and severely damaged by fire in 1991. The a...
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Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Dining room in the C.S. Gonstead home in Mt. Horeb. Madison architect Herb Fritz designed the house, which was built in 1954 and severely damaged by fire i...
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Table Settings

Date: 08 03 1954
Description: Cecelia Maas created a table setting with a wild fowl theme. Walter and Cecelia love to hunt and to serve wild game when they entertain.

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