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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Mrs. Harold Lampert and Two Children

Date: 04 20 1944
Description: Beatrice Lampert, wife of Harold, at home with her children, Al and Barbara Lou, 1907 Rowley Avenue. She was an assistant State Attorney General.
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Romance Koopman and Bobby Koopman

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w...
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Red Cross Liaison Agent Mrs. Kenneth (Rachel) Shiels

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Mrs. Kenneth (Rachel) Shiels, a Red Cross liaison agent who works with servicemen and their families, is shown with Mrs. Elvin (Edna) Olson, whose husband,...
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Mrs. F.V. Burcalow with Children and Airplane

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: Mrs. F.V. Burcalow is shown with her two children, Vicki and Larry, with an airplane. Mrs. Burcalow is learning how to fly while her husband, an assistant ...
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Florence Schlimgen and Four of Her Sons

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Mrs. Arthur E. (Florence) Schlimgen and four of her sons who are or were Wisconsin State Journal newspaper boys. Pictured from left to right are: La...
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How to Become a Wisconsin State JournalCarrier

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Ronnie Hinrichs is shown looking on as his mother, Mrs. Arthur S. Hinrichs, prepares to sign a contract giving Ronnie permission to become a WSJ carrier bo...
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Cotton Workers

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Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a...
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Jaycettes Style Show

Date: 03 10 1954
Description: Marilyn Johnson and her daughters, Karen (8), Kristi (6), and Kaye (3) model outfits for the Jaycettes Style Show sponsored by Junior Chamber of Commerce a...
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New Residents

Date: 09 13 1954
Description: Portrait of new Madison residents Doris Morgan and three and a half year old son, Gary, after arriving in Madison. Husband and father Thomas Morgan is now ...
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Woman, Daughter and Delivery Man

Date: 1973
Description: A woman and her daughter are pictured with a delivery man. They are gathered around a table, with the two adults standing and the child sitting. The woman ...
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We Saw You Being Good Neighbors

Date: 07 28 1960
Description: Elizabeth O'Brien and her daughter, Lu Ann, 4, are shown in their Shorewood Hills home extending hospitality to visiting labor union leaders Juan Duran Mar...
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State Tax Office Activity at Tax Deadline

Date: 04 13 1961
Description: A mother with her baby and young son is working on her tax form at the state tax office in the City-County building as the tax deadline nears.
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Second Baby Born in Madison in 1965

Date: 01 01 1965
Description: Jayne Elizabeth Hopkins arrived at 3:14 a.m. at Methodist Hospital to be the second baby born in 1965 in Madison. She is the daughter of Frances and Steve...
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Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears

Date: 1905
Description: A seated, full-length portrait in profile of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1907), early Wisconsin poet and author whose work was published under the pen...
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboy, Fred Ciebell (from Edgerton) waving goodbye from a window to his parents, Wes and Elaine Ciebell, and brother. Fred is in...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Author Marie Versace and Daughter

Date: 12 13 1957
Description: At the typewriter is Marie Teresa Rios Versace, mother of five children. At her side, daughter Tracy is reading a book. Versace has published her first boo...
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We Saw You Before Leaving for Europe

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: 18-year-old Pat Stoycheff is shown with his mother, Mrs. George Stoycheff, in Gov. Vernon Thompson's office prior to his 8-day trip to Spain as "Young Colu...

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