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| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | The Commercial National Bank building, on the corner of State and Carroll Streets, housed the bank as well as Mrs. Brown's Beauty Shoppe and Wegener and Ro... |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Eight barbers (S.R. Ashby, E.A. Sorenson, Louis H. Topp, Melvin Byom, Earl G. Carver, Melvin H. Randall, Joseph Fedele, and Claude E. Dyer) cutting hair of... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
| Date: | 02 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Shown taking part in the "burning of the mortgage" ceremony Thursday night at the Madison YWCA are (from left to right): Mrs. C.V. La Duke, who formerly wa... |
| Date: | 11 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Who's New Club at a barn dance at the YWCA gymnasium. Three women wearing bonnets pose next to a statue of Borden's "Elsie the Cow."... |
| Date: | 11 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edmund Hart, Miss Peggy Elvehjem, and Mrs. Harold Kubly serve as chairmen for the University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar to be held in the lobb... |
| Date: | 04 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the committee responsible for planning a Y-Teen dance, part of a World's Fair staged by the Y-Teens of Madison. From left are: Virginia D... |
| Date: | 10 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four of the six members of a Madison group named to be part of the National YWCA Citizens' committee for observance of the YWCA centennia... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Three women, one wearing Scandinavian folk clothing, are examining a globe while making plans for the U.W. YWCA's benefit smorgasbord. The event will help ... |
| Date: | 04 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Irene Thomas wears a Norwegian costume while looking forward to the annual smorgasbord of the University YWCA in the John Muir room of the YMCA. |
| Date: | 05 31 1961 |
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| Description: | Peggy Moore is shown with the new sign which will mark the entrance to the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The University YWCA is one of the 29 United Givers agencies. It assists university students and foreign students in adjusting to university life and the Am... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison YWCA is supported by funds from the United Givers. The YWCA provides group activities as pictured here for teens and young women. One popular activ... |
| Date: | 05 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips speaking at a podium. She is wearing a light blue suit. The sign on the podium reads: "YWCA of Greater Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street, seen looking west from the 200 block. In the background is Bascom Hill, ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the coalition of groups for the United War Work Campaign, which began in November 1918 and raised funds to support entertainment for Ame... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of soldiers in silhouette walking through the snow towards a warmly lit YMCA building at night. The YMCA and YWCA logo's are on... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a large triangle made of up soldiers standing in tight formation. In the middle is a large "Y." A sailor is on the righ... |
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