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Interior of Pew House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Ruth Pew (Mrs. J.C.), Frances Hurst (Mrs. William), president of the Madison League of Women Voters, and Katharine Becker (Mrs. Robert M.), member of the b...
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Interior of Historic Statz House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of Lenore Middleton (Mrs. Forest Middleton) posing with her cat in the antique-filled living room of her home at 3241 Highbury Road ...
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Mrs. Portia Horning and Daughter

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: Mrs. Roger O. Hornig (Portia Stone), holding daughter Pamela. Mrs. Horning and her daughter are staying with her mother, Mrs. Charles H. Stone, at Kennedy ...
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Ella M. Pickford

Date: 04 24 1945
Description: Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ...
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Carrie King

Date: 04 24 1945
Description: Carrie King (Mrs. F.H. King), 88, of 426 University Farm Place, who came to Madison with her husband, a professor of Agricultual Physics, in 1888. Mrs. Kin...
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Mrs. William Marling and Her Two Children

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Mrs. William Marling and her children, William and Cynthia, taken at the home of Lieutenant Marling's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Marling, 1...
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Mrs. Esther Mayer and Mrs. Iva Marsh

Date: 05 10 1945
Description: Mrs. John (Esther) Mayer, on the left, with her mother Mrs. Harold (Iva) Marsh, at the Marsh home. Mrs. Mayer is staying at the home of her parents while h...
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Mrs. Hildegarde Crownhart and Mrs. Ivy Wooll

Date: 05 10 1945
Description: Mrs. J. George (Hildegarde) Crownhart, on the left, and her mother Mrs. William W. (Ivy) Wooll, at their home at 1904 Jefferson Street.
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Margaret Rupp Cooper Playing Harp

Date: 06 14 1945
Description: Margaret Rupp Cooper (Mrs. Earl Cooper) playing a harp. She was a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin and a respected harp teacher. She was...
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Peterson Christmas Tree

Date: 12 24 1945
Description: Unidentified woman seated in a chair next to a decorated Christmas tree with presents underneath. On a table next to the woman are photographs of a soldier...
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Signe and Peder Sletteland

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor...
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Three Women with Formal Dress

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Shown left to right are: Judith Tormey, Florence Crowley, and holding a formal dress, Kathleen Kellogg. They are students at Rosary College.
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College Bound Coeds

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: College bound coeds, left to right: Christine Brinsmade, daughter of Helen Brinsmade; Mildred Stebbins, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Born; Bela Hanson, daug...
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Mrs. Jane Duff

Date: 08 19 1946
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Dane County pioneer resident, on her 90th birthday.
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Margaret Coughlin and Daughters

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Mrs. Thomas B. (Margaret) Coughlin, 510 West Shore Drive, and her eight daughters who are home for the Christmas season with their families. Seated are: Mr...
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Shorewood Hills Community League

Date: 09 21 1948
Description: Mrs. David E. (Doris) Green and her two daughters, who have just moved into their new home at 1525 Sumac Drive, are shown being visited by Mrs. John (Nell)...
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Eagle Heights Apartment Interior

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Mrs. J.E. Hurff standing on the stairway of her Eagle Heights apartment, furnished with Chinese art objects purchased during Captain J.E. Hurff's naval dut...
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Edward B.A. Sokoloski Home

Date: 02 10 1949
Description: The knotty pine living room in the home of the Edward B.A. Sokoloski family at 874 Woodrow Street. Mrs. Lucille Sokoloski is reading a book, and the family...
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Madison Interracial Sewing Group

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: A group of women mending clothes for the Quakers' relief clothing project at one of their regular Tuesday morning sessions at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (L...
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Bakke House on Odana Road

Date: 02 24 1949
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Westye F. (Mary) Bakke seated before the fireplace in the living room of the Bakke house at 4818 Odana Road (now 4817 Sherwood Road) with ...

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