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Vintage Gym Dress for Women

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Maude Johnson dressed in a turn of the century dance class outfit.
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Getting Ready for College

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Perry Neff, who will be attending Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and his sister, Ruth Rhea Neff, who will be attending Ferry Hall in Lake Fo...
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Vintage Dress for Women

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Gene Woodfin dressed in a 1898 University of Wisconsin gym suit.
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Professors of Women's Physical Education

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Professor Blanche M. Trilling, director of the physical education department, and Professor Abbie Shaw Mayhew, former director. Professor Trilling spoke ab...
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Arthur G. Tappen

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J...
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 09 05 1944
Description: Milkman from Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy posed next to horse-drawn delivery wagon, number 5, and the horse. This photograph documented a story about the end o...
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Kenneth Strauss

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Kenneth Strauss, chief gunners mate with the US Navy, on leave with his parents. Strauss is a former employee of the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Fire Chief Edward J. Page

Date: 09 13 1944
Description: Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Departmen...
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Mary Phalen

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Mary Phalen, age 95, who lives at the Veterans' Home in King, Wisconsin, was in Madison visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Merle ...
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Man Standing near Wall

Date: 08 12 1944
Description: Portrait of unidentified man, possibly an employee of the Dane County Co-op.
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Bishop Schuyler E. Garth

Date: 09 14 1944
Description: Rev. Doctor Schuyler E. Garth, newly appointed Methodist Bishop for the Wisconsin area, seated at a desk.
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Mrs. Betty Larsen and Son

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Mrs. Roy B. Larsen (Betty Odegard), holding son Eric. Mrs. Larsen and her son are staying with her mother, Mrs. S.L. Odegard, of Fox Bluff, while her husba...
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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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Mrs. Phyllis Stehr and Son

Date: 09 15 1944
Description: Mrs. Wesley C. Stehr, (Phyllis Bergh) holding son Richard "Dickie." Mrs. Stehr and her son are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Bergh, 1250 Sher...
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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Alford Beckwith, seventh grade student at Longfellow School, with three of his animal paintings exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhibition at...
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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: John Gorman, 1st grader at Emerson, and Gretchen Hovig, 7th grader at Lapham, with their art work being exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhib...
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Bernhard Mautz

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Bernhard "Bernie" Mautz, president, general manager, and founder of the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, at his desk. Mr. Mautz was chairman of Madison's 1...
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Midget Football Team Player

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Carol Kopp adjusting the helmet on David Hoeveler, a member of the West End Tigers, midget football team.
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Mr. Blaney

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Portrait of Mr. Blaney.
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Kathryn Piper

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob...

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