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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Some Bare Spots

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with examples of yards in need of gardens at the Vitale and Annie Gambino homes, and a spot...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Pertzborn Girls

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Alice, Rachel, and Barbara Pertzborn posing by their garden in the front corner of ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Matthews Family

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Rosalie, Ollie Mae, and Adrena Matthews posing by their garden, near the front step...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Cordio Children

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Edith, John, and Caroline Cordio posing in the garden at the front of their house a...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Catherine LaBruzzo

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Mrs. Ora Smith

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner in the Senior category garden competition, Mrs. Ora Smith, sitting on th...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club

Date: 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Garden Club posing in their yards or next to their plants. Started in 1931 as part of...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Member

Date: 1938
Description: Full-length view of a Neighborhood House Garden Club member standing on the front steps of her house and tending to her flower boxes while turning to face ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Children

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Fire Tower

Date: 07 1941
Description: Fire tower at Pigeon Lake Boys' Camp, a summer camp sponsored by the Recreation Department of the Work Projects Administration. Thirteen boys associated wi...
Photograph

Frame 36: People Entering Meeting House

Date: 1964
Description: A group of men and women talk outside on the steps of a building and in the open doorway likely attending a mass meeting.
Photograph

Bottles on Stoop, North Wall Street

Date: 1966
Description: Two containers of Coke bottles sit on the front steps of a house.

The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants...

Photograph

House, North Wall Street

Date: 1966
Description: A home with clothing hanging out to dry on a clothesline.

The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants, 24 toi...

Photograph

Walkway, Griffin Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "This path from the alleyway to the outhouse is flooded when it rains — note the 'bridge' from the bottom porch step to the opposite bank."

Griffin Alley...

Photograph

Woman Walking Through Freedom House Door

Date: 1965
Description: A woman walks up steps and through a door into a Freedom House, used by civil rights workers.
Photograph

Russian Barn

Date: 1918
Description: A Russian man is standing with his horse in front of a large barn. The barn has an arched balcony above the double doors. Around the barn half-buried in th...
Photograph

Four Women Posing on Front Steps

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Description: Four African American women posing while sitting on porch steps. Three of them are wearing slacks and blouses, while the woman in front is wearing a white ...
Postcard

2nd Ward Public School

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the public school, a large brick building with a turret in the corner.

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