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Alan Ameche and Family

Date: 10 17 1953
Description: Alan Ameche, the University of Wisconsin's football full back, and nicknamed "the Horse," is pictured with his wife Yvonne and their five-month-old son Bri...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Geraldine Fitzpatrick, of 1504 Sumac Drive in Shorewood Hills, decorates her home for Christmas with children Cecelia (age 4), Gerry (age 6), and Lynn (age...
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Fire Victims

Date: 12 21 1953
Description: Portrait of Martha Verriden with her 14 month old son, Stevie. They lost their home and possessions in a fire at their trailer home at Oak Park Trailer Cou...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 02 08 1954
Description: Mrs. William C. Roberts (left) of 29 Frederick Circle, co-chairman of the annual Girl Scout cookie sale in Madison, posing with her four daughters, Blanche...
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Black Out Curtains

Date: 1942
Description: Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ...
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Flight Nurse with Her Parents

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, visiting with her parents as she prepares to leave U.S. soil. Jensen is kneeling on the floor as her parents are sitting on a be...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni...
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Scofields at Dinner

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Description: Mrs. Herbert C. Scofield, with sons Lloyd and Stanley at the dinner table.
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Algerian Child Wearing Chapelle's Eyeglasses

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian girl in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. A man is holding Dickey Chapelle's glasses up to the girl's face. She is wearing a patterne...
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Catherine Kuehn and Children

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Group portrait of Catherine Kuehn with eleven of her twelve children.
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Jeffrey Family

Date: 04 17 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. John Jefferey seated with her two children, Jill, age 11 and John, age 18.
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Dushans Ship Out from Truax To England

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mary Dushan surrounded by her four children. They are, clockwise from upper left: Andy, 7, Joseph Jr., 9 1/2, Jimmy, 4, and Patrica Ann, ...
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Mrs. Jack Schwartz

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Elizabeth Morris takes loaves of bread out of the oven as her children Mary, age 3 1/2 and Sandra, 15 months, look on. The photograph was taken as part of ...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Mary Hubanks brushes the hair of her daughter Lynne, age 5. The photograph was part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles performed by stay-at...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Jane Gardner says prayers with her children Jane, age 6, and Mary, age 5. The photograph was taken as part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many rol...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Mary Heine wraps a bandage around the leg of her daughter Sally, age 8. The photograph was taken as part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles...
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Portrait of Kay Norcross with her children Susan, Sandra, and, seated in her lap, Kenneth III. They are visiting the home of her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. J.A...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association State Tournament

Date: 07 13 1954
Description: Tracy Nelson, age 9, and Tim Nelson, 12, admire prizes purchased for the 42nd annual state tournament of the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association at the Blac...

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