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| Date: | 09 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Kienitz and Freda K. Winterble in front of the Petheridge/Isom/Keystone house, built in 1853. The residence, located at 901 University Bay Drive, i... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young couple riding in a hydroplane speedboat. |
| Date: | 03 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A class of male and female students work in a biology laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Two women stand in the middle of the large, open r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class. The women are using chemistry equipment and microscopes. On the blackboard is a formula fo... |
| Date: | 08 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with women on the float and eleven workers standing in front of the... |
| Date: | 06 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Four women in golfing clothes posing by a pull golf cart. Standing is Alphida Voight; seated are Dorothy Martin, Mildred Wellman, and Ruth Ellis. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The north library reading room, which was reserved for women, in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This room, which w... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a histological laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of students, men and women, are sitting around two tables in fro... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Unveiling ceremony, in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Two American flags and a Wisconsin pennant hang from a wire abov... |
| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | Unveiling ceremony, in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Two American flags and a Wisconsin pennant hang from a wire abov... |
| Date: | 09 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Two women modeling Manchester clothes while standing in front of a horse stall. A dog is on the left. "Hundred to One, It's for You" Manchester's new Fall ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Two women of the Court of Honor for the University of Wisconsin military ball sitting beside each other for a portrait. Kappa Alpha Theta member Mary Bryan... |
| Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Maude Johnson dressed in a turn of the century dance class outfit. |
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls. |
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| Description: | A young woman wearing a dress and a hat rakes leaves in a yard. In the background, a neighboring house is adorned with detailed fretwork brackets on an out... |
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