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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Jennie Justo

Date: 05 15 1933
Description: Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude...
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Bath Time

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother.
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Washing Dishes

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: Mother and daughter washing dishes together.
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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Tea Party

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club.
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Big Baby

Date: 10 04 1958
Description: A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
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March of Dimes Contribution

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: A toddler is inserting a dime into a March of Dimes collection board as her mother is holding her in her arms and looking on. The collection is to raise mo...
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Mothers and Children at Church

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Group portrait of mothers and children at Bethel Lutheran Church, 318 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Family Group at WIBU Radio Station

Date: 12 29 1944
Description: Reverend C.O. and Mrs. Grobber and daughters at WIBU radio station studio. Reverend Grobber is sitting in front of a microphone, Mrs. Grobber and daughters...
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Herbert Bisno with Mother Mrs. L. Bisno

Date: 11 10 1940
Description: Herbert Bisno, of Tripp Hall, in United States ROTC uniform, with his mother Mrs. L. Bisno, of Montclair, New Jersey.
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Margaret Lewis and Dickie

Date: 11 17 1937
Description: Portrait of Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Lewis sitting in a chair and Richard "Dickie" Lewis, a 3-year-old, standing beside the chair with floor model radio in th...
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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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