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Ellen Sabin

Date: 11 29 1945
Description: Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o...
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Woman Receiving a Package

Date: 08 1935
Description: A maid(?) is receiving a package from a delivery man. Original caption reads: "Posed for Mandel Bros. Story. Taken by K and F." The image was likely used ...
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Juliette Blackman Breese (Mrs. Cecil Bennett) with William and Zona Gale Breese

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the bride, Juliette, seated, with her father, William Llewellyn Breese, and step-mother Zona Gale Breese, standing behind her. There is an ar...
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Sarnoff of NBC

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Description: Robert Sarnoff (center), president of NBC, at a social gathering in Tokyo with Cecil Brown, the head of NBC's bureau in Tokyo, and Martha Brown.
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Unitarian Anniversary

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: The head table at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Seated at the table are Frank Lloyd Wright and, next to ...
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Wisconsin Democrats

Date: 1984
Description: The audience at the Lincoln County fairgrounds who gathered to hear Democratic candidates Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, with the national media cov...
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Fashion

Date: 08 06 1958
Description: Stephanie Foster modeling a sable brown moire taffeta cocktail dress, styled with a bubble skirt and elbow length gloves.
Postcard

A Maid in a Mob Cap

Date: 1900
Description: A young woman dressed as a maid in a long apron and wearing a mob cap, stands outdoors against the side of a house. She has a set of keys hanging from her ...
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Gerda Ruecktenwald

Date: 05 09 1992
Description: Vel Phillips posing with photographer Gerda Ruecktenwald. Vel is wearing a light blue suit, a flower shaped brooch, and a button pin that reads: "Hate" wit...
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3rd Anniversary, Local #174 International Laundry Workers

Date: 09 03 1937
Description: View of a large group of people sitting and standing in a large room. A floral bouquet and a curtain divider are in the foreground.
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We Saw You . . . at Bankers Open House

Date: 11 28 1958
Description: The Wisconsin Bankers Association holds an open house at their new offices in the Wisconsin Power and Light Company building, 122 W. Washington Avenue. Sho...
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Mothers with Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Beverly Stark, a Madison television personality with two children, is posing with a floral arrangement on a set in front of a television camera. A man is s...

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