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Ruth Holt with Mother

Date: 07 23 1934
Description: Portrait of Ruth Holt holding golf club, at the Nakoma golf course, age 10. She was the youngest player in the Junior Qualifying Round of the Wisconsin Wom...
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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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Madison Catholic Women's Club Hobby Show

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Mrs. Mary Huber, and her son Jim, posing with the clay models he plans to enter in the Madison Catholic Women's Club hobby show.
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Family of Dr. and Mrs. Russell Pleune

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Russell (Etta) Pleune and her three children, Ann (left), Peter (standing), and John. Dr. Russell Pleune is the new chief of profess...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 04 03 1954
Description: Frances Larson putting the final touches on a formal dress modeled by her daughter Laurie, age 14. Frances, labeled a "modiste" or one who makes fashionabl...
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Preparing Watercress for Sale

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Mae Chidester and her son Philip demonstrate their technique of preparing watercress for shipping to Madison retail outlets. The watercress grows on the la...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association State Tournament

Date: 07 13 1954
Description: Tracy Nelson, age 9, and Tim Nelson, 12, admire prizes purchased for the 42nd annual state tournament of the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association at the Blac...
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East Side Women's Club Mother-Daughter Banquet

Date: 03 27 1956
Description: Louise Marston (right) acts as speaker at a mother-daughter banquet at the East Side Women's Club. With her are Catherine Gedko, speaker for mothers, and K...
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East Side Women's Club Mother-Daughter Banquet

Date: 03 27 1956
Description: Portrait of a three generation group at the East Side Women's Club mother-daughter banquet, including (from left) Mrs. Detlev Heick (grandmother), Lynn Mar...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 04 11 1956
Description: Cherokee Heights School principal Emery Bainbridge stands beside student Robert Kurtenacker and his mother, Elizabeth, who needed blood donations during he...
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Mother-Daughter Dinner

Date: 05 17 1956
Description: Seated at the speakers' table for the mother-daughter dinner at St. Bernard's Catholic Church are Mrs. Alfred E. (Mathida) Rathert, who gave the mother's t...
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Mother-Daughter Dinner

Date: 05 17 1956
Description: Attending the mother-daughter dinner at St. Bernard's Catholic Church are Mrs. Ralph (Jessie) Walker (left) and her daughter Colleen (right), and in the ce...
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Visiting Relatives and Former Residents

Date: 07 17 1956
Description: Mrs. S.P. Huntington sits with her two sons, Jack and Tom. They are from Pocatello, Idaho and are visiting her two sisters, Mrs. Victor Lanning and Mrs. Iv...
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Griggs Album: Mothers Day at Camp Anna Vilas

Date: 05 1924
Description: Mothers and small children standing and posing in Vilas Park, with other mothers and older children lying prone, propping themselves up with their elbows, ...
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East Side Women's Club Spring Banquet

Date: 06 11 1957
Description: At left is Mrs. Amy Levander (left) sitting with her 98-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Ella Stevenson, and her mother, Mrs. W.G. Gerlach, during a three-genera...
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Eagle Scout Award

Date: 04 01 1958
Description: Robert Whipple pins a miniature badge on his mother, Myrtle Whipple, after receiving an Eagle Scout Badge at Luther Memorial Church. Left to right: Rev. Fr...
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West High Y-Teens at Flower Show

Date: 11 07 1959
Description: Lisa Rutherford (left), chairman of the West High Y-Teen Club and chairman of the ticket sellers for the flower show presented by the Wisconsin-Upper Michi...
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Eagle Scout Presentation

Date: 02 12 1961
Description: Ernest N. Wackwitz, Sr., scoutmaster of troop sixteen at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, pins an Eagle Scout badge on his son Ernest (Bud) Wackwitz, Jr....
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Bowlers Thada and Maureen Richman

Date: 01 09 1961
Description: Portrait of fourteen year old Maureen, left, and Thada Richman, mother and daughter bowlers in the Unemployment Compensation League. Maureen is described a...
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Eagle Scout Awards

Date: 05 22 1961
Description: Three members of Explorer Scout Post 19 of Luther Memorial Church receive their Eagle Scout awards in ceremonies in the church. The scouts and their parent...

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