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Spring Fashions

Date: 02 21 1949
Description: Shirley Jasper stands in an afternoon tea dress, while her sons Billy, age 4, and Tommy, age 6 months, look on. She has a fur wrap around her arm.
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Spring Fashions

Date: 02 21 1949
Description: Joan Davis, a Manitowoc coed who reigned on the previous weekend as queen of the 30th Little International Livestock Show sponsored by the College of Agric...
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Retiring Asssistant Fire Chief S.C.A. Ratcliffe

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Assistant Fire Chief Sebastian C.A. Ratcliffe shaking hands with three fire fighters with whom he has teamed to fight many fires in Madison. The photograph...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 20 1949
Description: Left to right are: Professor Andrew T. Weaver, Professor William Kiekhofer, Gladys Kiekhofer, and Cornelia Weaver, audience members at the premiere product...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Left to right are: Arlie W. Schorger; Mrs. John Greene, sister of Alfred Lunt; Mr. John Greene; and Margaret Schorger; audience members at the premiere per...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Harriet Hass and her daughter Georgia Hass at the premiere performance of the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne play "I Know My Love" at the Wisconsin Union Theate...
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Boy and Girl Posing with Musical Instruments

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Description: A boy and girl stand for a studio portrait with musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. The boy wears a matching suit jacket and short pants an...
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Boy and Girl in Rowboat

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Description: A young boy and girl pose for a studio portrait in a decorative rowboat in front of a painted backdrop. The young boy wears a hat, wide-collared shirt and ...
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Central High School Students Honored

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Central high school honor students June Cleary, winner of the DAR Good Citizenship award for her school, and Walter Northrup, recipient of the Veterns of F...
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University of Wisconsin Military Ball Court

Date: 03 21 1949
Description: Lenora Lien, University of Wisconsin senior in home economics, is pictured balancing a budget. Ms. Lien, who resides in Madison at 3126 Lakeland Avenue, ha...
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University of Wisconsin Military Ball Court

Date: 03 21 1949
Description: Marilyn Henry, Waukegan, Illinois, marking the days on a calender to her marriage on June 25 to L.T. Young, a Psi Upsilon, from Highland Park, Illinois. Ms...
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: Sigrid Schultz, foreign correspondent and speaker at the annual Matrix banquet sponsored by the University of Wisconsin chapter of Theta Sigma Phi at the M...
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Madison Art Guild's Annual Exhibition

Date: 04 03 1949
Description: Pictured admiring the water color "Landscape" by Mrs. M.J. (Genevieve) Cass, which was first place winner in water color class of the Madison Art Guild's a...
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Nellie Maxwell

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Description: Portrait of Farmers' Institute Instructor, Nellie Maxwell. On right border of print the word "WATER" is handwritten, vertically.
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Jane Addams

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well as the American Ci...
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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
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Miss Olive White

Date: 1949
Description: Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ...
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Betty Iltis and Daughter Barbara Kay Iltis

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Betty (Mrs. Charles O.) Iltis with daughter Barbara Kay at the home of her husband's parents, Prof. and Mrs. Leon L. Iltis.
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Woman with 11FC Freezer

Date: 1949
Description: A woman in a dress, heels, apron, and pearls poses next to an open International Harvester freezer. The freezer, a unit with the lid on top, is full of foo...
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Woman and Child with 11FC Freezer

Date: 1949
Description: A woman in a dress, apron, heels, and earrings leaning over an open International Harvester freezer, smiling at a girl. The girl, in a dress, braided pigta...

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