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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen. |
| Date: | 10 09 1952 |
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| Description: | Show window at Hill's Store, 202 State Street, featuring a display of EZ-DO and Princess House Space Savers garment bags, shoe bags, hat boxes and storage ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1955 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, 2 East Mifflin Street, display window showing a Spring Air mattress and a mannequin. |
| Date: | 10 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Display of Customagic slip covers on a sofa and chair in a show window of Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Annrita Lardy sitting in the living room of her and her husband Dr. Henry A. Lardy's new home, designed by Herb Fritz, 1829 Thorstrand Road. |
| Date: | 10 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Annrita Lardy sitting in the living room of her and her husband Dr. Henry A. Lardy's new house, designed by Herb Fritz, 1829 Thorstrand Road. Fritz was a s... |
| Date: | 06 28 1955 |
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| Description: | Geneva Johnson sits in the sunroom of her contemporary home at 313 New Castle Way in Maple Bluff. Her home will be featured on a July 14 Tour of Homes spon... |
| Date: | 06 28 1955 |
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| Description: | Leslie Gillett is sitting in her traditional antique-filled living room at 3443 Edgehill Parkway in Shorewood Hills. The home will be featured in the Attic... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Dining "L" of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. (Sylvia) Killian, 3814 Hillcrest Drive, featuring a geometic patterned paper on one wall that uses t... |
| Date: | 02 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm (left), Mrs. Oscar Toebaas, Mrs. H. Lewis Greene, and Mrs. Foster Blackburn admire the twin silver candelabras which the Dane County W... |
| Date: | 03 09 1950 |
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| Description: | The dining room at the Wisconsin Governor's Residence with its scenic wallpaper is one of the loveliest rooms in the house. The rich antique blue of the ru... |
| Date: | 03 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Sun streams into the first floor porch and garden room of the Governor's residence at 101 Cambridge Road. Its color is repeated in the warm golds of the ti... |
| Date: | 03 23 1950 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 10 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 14 1953 |
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| 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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