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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Julius Sinykin

Date: 07 18 1953
Description: Waist-up portrait of Julius Sinykin. He is wearing eyeglasses, a suit and a bow tie, and has a ring on the his left hand and a watch on his left wrist.
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Truax Field Control Tower

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: From the observation window, G.M. Femrite is fixing his binocular field glasses on an incoming plane at the Truax Field control tower.
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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Models for Gamma Phi Beta Tea

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Three Gamma Phi Beta undergraduates who will serve as models at the annual spring fashion tea. The co-eds, dressed in formal dresses, are left to right: Ja...
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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ...
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New York Television Writer Gives Advice to Women

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ...
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Richard W. Vesey

Date: 07 21 1957
Description: Portrait of Richard Vesey, who had a gallery exhibition at the University of Wisconsin Union of his photographs. He was a member of the Wisconsin State ...
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Wisconsin State Treasurer Dena Smith

Date: 12 13 1957
Description: Dena A. Smith was sworn in as State Treasurer on December 4th for the 13-month unexpired term of her husband, Warren R. Smith, who died on December 3rd. De...
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Louise Marston, Wisconsin State Journal Society Page Writer

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Portrait of Louise Marston, a writer for the Society Page of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Honoring Librarian Katharine Middleton

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: Wearing an orchid corsage (far right) is Katherine Middleton at a tea in her honor at a private home. She retired on January 1st after almost 32 years of s...
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Honoring Librarian Katharine Middleton

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: Librarian friends at a tea honoring Katherine Middleton who is retiring after almost 32 years with the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. They are Jennie S...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Ann Rutlin. She grew up on a farm near Cottage Grove, graduated in 1957 from Wisconsin State College in Whitewater, and taught second and third...
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New Volunteer Coordinator

Date: 03 07 1958
Description: Jo Nicholson, the new volunteer coordinator at Mendota State Hospital.
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Phyllis Steinich Price. In 1957, she married James Price in 1957, a "tenant farmer near Lodi." She would graduate in June 1958 from the U.W. Sc...
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Women Journalists

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: The four journalists who have been asked to speak for the traditional "ladies night" program of the Madison Advertising Club at the Cuba Club. They are (le...
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A Day 'With a County Home Agent"

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Kathleen Russell preparing to leave her office in the Iowa County Courthouse in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
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Savings Bonds Sales Campaign

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: "Airman 2/C Don R. Roberts, Truax Field, is shown purchasing his portion of 'Share in America' — 15 U.S. $50 savings bonds. Roberts, a native of Wichita Fa...

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