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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Spring Snow

Date: 01 26 1959
Description: Two women, seen from behind, are using umbrellas while walking on a snowy sidewalk on the first block of East Main Street on the Capitol Square in Madison.
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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First Place Winner of the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 10 01 1957
Description: Portrait of Helen Samuelsen, who won first place for her recipe for blueberry torte in the Wisconsin State Journal cookbook contest.
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Winnipeg Y-Teens Visit Madison

Date: 04 08 1958
Description: Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View looking down at a line of men and women waiting to buy tickets to Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office located in the basement ...
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Appliance Show in Darlington, WI

Date: 03 06 1954
Description: Youngstown Kitchens appliance show sponsored by the Darlington Furniture Store held in the Darlington High School auditorium. A woman is demonstrating new ...
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YWCA World Fellowship Committee

Date: 06 1955
Description: Four women sitting around a bench in a garden by Lake Mendota. They are discussing plans for the Annual World Fellowship Benefit Garden Tea sponsored by th...
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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Group Portrait of Swimmers

Date: 02 14 1953
Description: This may be a group portrait of men and women swimmers in costume swimming suits. They are sitting and standing on a stage. Some of them are holding signs ...
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Maple Bluff Country Club Golf Lessons

Date: 07 09 1954
Description: Man squatting down pointing to a golf ball in a sandtrap at Maple Bluff Country Club, instructing a woman to how to hit it. There are several onlookers beh...
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Garden Club Floral Paintings

Date: 03 22 1958
Description: Garden Club floral paintings. Four paintings displayed with three women standing behind paintings and one young girl standing in front looking at a scene o...
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Annual Observance of World Community Day

Date: 10 02 1958
Description: Madison church women plan to join United Church Women throughout the world to observe World Community Day. The service is held at the First Evangelical Uni...
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We Saw You . . . at Tea for Mrs. Kuehn

Date: 07 29 1960
Description: A tea is held to honor Mrs. Margery Kuehn, Whitefish Bay, wife of the Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, Philip G. Kuehn. Among the women assi...
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Fashion Photograph

Date: 08 12 1954
Description: Fashion photo for Woldenberg's taken on the Edgewater Hotel Pier located on Lake Mendota at the end of Wisconsin Avenue. A woman in a striped dress, dark h...
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Recipes for Working Women

Date: 05 11 1959
Description: Emily Chervenik holds a tray of her jam-filled Swedish cakes that she plans to take to the Altrusa Country Fair in Cambridge. She has a collection of treas...
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Women's Western Open

Date: 06 23 1955
Description: Two professional women golfers check in at the scorer's table for the 26th Annual Women's Western Open at the Maple Bluff Country Club. At left is veteran ...
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Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in Her Kitchen

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Description: Shirley Abrahamson in her kitchen preparing Minute Rice.
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Ed & Donna Stein

Date: 02 19 1954
Description: Photographer Ed Stein and his wife, Donna, in formal dress before attending the University of Wisconsin prom at the Memorial Union. He is in a tuxedo and s...
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University of Wisconsin Fraternity Housemothers

Date: 01 19 1959
Description: Kappa Sigma fraternity housemother, Mrs. Donald Matheson, serving as hostess with some of "her boys" in a simulated rushing scene. Included in the picture...

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