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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Kiser House

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Kitchen in the Elliott and Jennie Kiser house on Old Middleton Road near Heim Avenue, built in 1860 by Joseph Heim.
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Girl Scout Week

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Demonstrating their ability at homemaking, baking and testing cookies, are four members of the Girl Scout troop at Middleton High School who have just beco...
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Mendota Yacht Club Beachcombers Party

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party.
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Business Women's Bowling League

Date: 11 02 1953
Description: The Business Women's Bowling League staged its first annual dress up bowling sessions at the Plaza Alleys. Ad Colvin dresses as a mophead.
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University of Wisconsin Men's Dolphin Club Show

Date: 03 02 1953
Description: During a scene from the University of Wisconsin Men's Dolphin Club show "Robin Hood Comes Clean," Nick Woodas of Madison portrays the king in anguish over ...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ...
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Two campers working on a trail during the seventh and eighth grade Girl Scouts play day at the Black Hawk Council's Camp Brandenburg. Lois Lischeske of Mad...
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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Sunnyside School

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Cook Mrs. Clara Lehr and her assistant Mrs. Betty Hungate preparing lunch at Sunnyside School at 3902 East Washington Avenue.
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Lake View Lutheran Lutefisk Dinner

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Six women, some wearing aprons, preparing cakes while standing around a high table. Cakes and a stand mixer are on the table top. They are at Lakeview Ame...
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North Central Airline Stewardesses

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Stewardess Coleen Ogle cooking in the apartment she shares with three other stewardesses. Art Kemp, first officer and co-pilot, is looking on. The photogra...
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Making Pumpkin Pie

Date: 10 22 1954
Description: Virginia Price's kindergarten class making pumpkin pie at Dudgeon School. Left to right: Nancy Olmstead, Julie Duckwitz, Marcia Kampen, Larry Elliott, and ...
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Jean Brickson and her daughters Ann, age 4, and Betty, age 2, make cut-out Christmas cookies.
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Jack L. Savidusky stands in his yard wearing a chef's hat and apron while barbecuing his specialty, "Mexican Barbecued Beef." His son Michael, 11, looks on...
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Catholic Junior League Car Wash

Date: 09 01 1956
Description: Four members of the Catholic Junior League polishing a car at George's Service Station, 5990 Monona Drive during an all-girl car wash at Madison service st...
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Eloise Haas (left), Helen Burkhardt, Harriet Denniston make pottery during the Madison Art Guild workshop held at the Brobst home recreation room at 211 La...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics graduates on the research staff of Oscar Mayer and Co. Theresa DiPiazza, Lorraine Splies and Donna Otto do research ...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Altrusa Club member Emma Rice, in a dress and on her knees, planting a flower garden at Agehaven Nursing Home on Bridge Road, as residents Louise Cook and ...

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