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Native American Mother

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Description: A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ...
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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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Mothers and Children at Church

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Group portrait of mothers and children at Bethel Lutheran Church, 318 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Audrey Walsh and Sons

Date: 02 08 1944
Description: Audrey Walsh and her sons, David and John, looking at Valentines. John J. Walsh, the boys' father, is the boxing coach at the University of Wisconsin.
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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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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Child Study Group

Date: 02 13 1950
Description: Members of a child study group of the University of Wisconsin Dames are shown engaged in recreation for children. Three members, shown with their children,...
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Mrs. R.W. Doskotch serves lunch to her baby daughter Donna Leisa at their unit in the U.W. Eagle Heights graduate students apartments. Mr. Doskotch earned ...
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Foster Mothers Tea

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Three members of the Woman's Club of Madison that presided at the tea for foster mothers of Dane county at the Wisconsin executives' mansion. Pictured are ...
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New Members of the Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: New Assemblyman Frederick P. Kessler, Democrat from Milwaukee, receiving a kiss on the check from his mother, Mrs. Frederick Kessler. Kessler, the younges...
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Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Exhibits of party ideas for children were part of the activities at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Ani...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Edith Trowbridge and Son Tom

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Mrs. L.G. (Edith) Trowbridge, winner of the blue ribbon in the Wisconsin State Journal recipe contest, is slicing a loaf of her winning entry, cinna...
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First Dutch Settlers

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Description: Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses.
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Red Cross Blood Donor Recipeint

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: Three year-old Louise Runge, center, whose life was saved by the blood of an unknown Red Cross donor, is shown with University of Wisconsin student Nancy S...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
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Audrey Fahlberg and Children

Date: 02 27 1948
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Wilson (Audrey) Fahlberg and her children, Karen, 8, and Wilson Jr., 4 at their trailer home at Badger Village. Mrs. Wilson is the p...
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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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Woman Cutting Pattern

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Description: A mother is cutting a pattern from display material on a table.
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Woman and Infant on a Porch

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Description: View of a woman kneeling and holding an infant on a wooden porch.

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