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Norwegian Family with Possessions

Date: 1870
Description: Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc...
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Elizabeth Therese Baird and Women with Baby

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Description: Three women and a baby girl posing on a porch outside a house. Seated on the left is Louise Sophia Favill, standing is Eleanor Favill Tenney, seated on rig...
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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Baby Department at Manchester's Department Store

Date: 1937
Description: The baby department, stocking clothing, toys, and accessories, at Manchester's Department Store.
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Baby Sitting at Child's Training Desk

Date: 09 29 1945
Description: Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed.
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Maffet Family, Four Generations

Date: 03 23 1945
Description: Group portrait of four generations of the Maffet family. Left to right: David John Maffet in uniform (b. 5/31/1922), Ellen Gardener McDermott (b. 8/8/1858)...
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Manchester's, Inc., Baby Development Clinic Window Display

Date: 1944
Description: Manchester's, Inc., Baby Development Clinic window display, featuring nurse mannequin bathing a baby mannequin, surrounded by baby products.
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Birth Announcement Set-Up

Date: 04 18 1940
Description: Birth announcement for James Martin Kroyer taken for Dr. and Mrs. T.J. Kroyer, Walworth Wisconsin; includes picture of infant, born at Wisconsin General Ho...
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A Star Is Born

Date: 05 18 1937
Description: Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte...
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Isabel B. La Follette and Daughter

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: Two-week-old Isabel B. La Follette, held by her mother Isabel La Follette.
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Mother and Her 17th Baby

Date: 07 22 1935
Description: Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She w...
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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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Mrs. Morrow Holding Twins

Date: 10 30 1934
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Morrow, 21-years-old, sitting and wearing dark eyeglasses due to a medical procedure for an eye infection. Morrow is from Mather, Wisconsi...
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Chris Copus Family

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer...
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Nurses with Newborns

Date: 02 02 1934
Description: Three baby girls were born on President Franklin Roosevelt's birthday; Beverly Ann Shepherd, held by nurse Bernice Schantz, Marilyn Joan Hauden, held by nu...
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Portrait of Charles May Family

Date: 11 05 1933
Description: Portrait of Charles May family. Father and mother, and three children.
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Joseph Oden La Follette and His Grandmother

Date: 11 16 1933
Description: Joseph Oden La Follette, the son of Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., being held by his maternal grandmother, Harriet Oden of Washington, D.C.
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Four Generation Portrait

Date: 03 17 1933
Description: Four generation portrait taken for Nola McGann (Mrs. Louis).
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Hans Anderson Family

Date: 01 24 1932
Description: Group portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Anderson, Morningside Heights, and their 14 children.
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First Baby Born in Madison in 1932

Date: 01 02 1931
Description: First baby born at Methodist Hospital, 1932, 309 W. Washington Avenue. Nurse Mrs. Gorden L. Fredendall is holding Brunell Winston Ethun.

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