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| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Manchester's Department Store coed model, wearing a fur jacket, hat and purse, posing on the steps of a passenger train, with two pieces of luggage on the ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1932 |
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| Description: | A Fanchon & Marco showgirl dressed in street clothes, leaning on a piano. Text on print reads: "'Mystery Revue' Orpheum Girl." |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | Raquel Torres modeling a dress and hat at Heller's, 205 State Street. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth. The text at the bottom reads: "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth." |
| Date: | 01 22 1952 |
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| Description: | The junior division of the University of Wisconsin Service League for faculty wives has a number of interest groups including the sewing group, shown prepa... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Ferris models an outfit for the Jaycettes Style Show sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary. |
| Date: | 05 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Nellie Howland, one of the five original members of the Philharmonic Chorus, is shown in a local drugstore as part of her job as inventory worker for the M... |
| Date: | 04 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Karen Olson, a senior at Wisconsin High School, models appropriate clothing for a job interview. She is wearing a tailored dress, hose ("a must for career ... |
| Date: | 03 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Two women attend the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists; they include June Brown, left, and Margaret Russell, both... |
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| Description: | Actress Audrey Hepburn, then a representative of UNICEF, visiting Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey in his office. She was in Washington to testify on b... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Adda Howie standing outside the International Harvester office (probably in Milwaukee). |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Clothing outfits available at Madison stores being modeled by young women: Walking on a sidewalk, Margaret McDowell is wearing a suit of a avocado green tw... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Typed note with photograph reads: "Pan American World Airways Photo, To Write on Tension in Germany, Miss Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington newspaper co... |
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