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Jumping Rope

Date: 04 09 1956
Description: Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope.
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Y-Teen Club Members

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Three Madison Y-Teen Club members placing candles in the Y-Teen emblem as an observance of Nation Y-Teen Week. Left to right are Robereta Polkinghorn, West...
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African-American Extras(?) for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Lewis Arms on Easter

Date: 04 26 1943
Description: Lewis Arms poses with his sister and other children on Easter Day. Front from left to right are Nedra Arms (sister) and John Hall. From left to right behin...
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Allis-Chalmers Rally

Date: 10 20 1946
Description: Outdoor rally of Allis-Chalmers workers. A man is speaking into a microphone in the front and people stand on the sidewalk and the grassy rise in the backg...
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Webb Family Album: Three Maids of Madison

Date: 1920
Description: A page from the Webb family album, compiled and captioned by Andrew Webb Jr., son of Caroline Webb, with four images of family friends, including two young...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: 1941 Season Trip #3 Highlights

Date: 07 22 1941
Description: Scrapbook page of trip highlights from a bike hosteling trip to Pine Bluff (Dane County), Sauk City (Sauk County), and Okee (Columbia County), sponsored by...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
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Freedom School Teacher and Students

Date: 1964
Description: Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes.
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Frame 78: Line Up with Signs

Date: 1964
Description: A group of young people on a sidewalk protesting with signs in support of the MFDP.
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Brass Band on Main Street

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Description: View across unpaved Main Street towards an African-American brass band standing and playing in front of the storefront for A.F. Werner. Pedestrians watch f...
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Students in Kitchen Classroom, Roosevelt Junior High

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Description: Elevated view of students in a home economics kitchen classroom at Roosevelt Junior High.
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Debutantes at the Cosmopolitan Club

Date: 01 27 1958
Description: Ten young women in formal gowns are holding bouquets and posing together. Caption reads: "Debutantes were the guests of honor at the 24th annual ball of th...
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Debutante Training

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: A woman is holding hands with two young women, with several young men and women looking on from behind them. Caption reads: "Walk slowly," were the instruc...
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21st Annual Cosmopolitan Club Ball

Date: 01 23 1955
Description: A man is reading from a piece of paper, while a man and three women are looking on. Caption reads: "The first debutante to arrive at the 21st annual ball o...
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Honoring Mothers

Date: 05 05 1955
Description: A young man is standing and smiling and looking at a woman sitting on the left, while another young man sitting on the right is looking on. In front of the...
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Hello, Dolly

Date: 03 30 1979
Description: Two women in costumes posing and stretching out their arms towards the camera. Caption reads: "Phyllis Bickham (left) and Amber Kelly will alternate in the...
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Flora Fountain School Picture

Date: 1926
Description: Flora Fountain school group portrait. Names, back row (l to r): teacher Dorothy Enloe, Veda Edwards, Dorothy Greene, Wesley Greene, Lyle Adkinson, Nelson C...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House.

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