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Ruby Kubota
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Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan when he was 15 and settled in Metaline Falls, Washington. After working long hours in a laundry, he bought property and became a well-known resident of Metaline Falls. His daughter, Ruby, submitted many articles and letters to the local newspapers and won an 5,000 word essay contest of the American Legion on the subject of Americanism. She is a freshman journalism student at the University of Wisconsin.
May 17, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Groves Women's Co-op President and House Parents
October 23, 1944
Group portrait of Ruby Kubota, a Japanese-American student and president of the Groves Women's Co-operative house, 625 North Henry Street; Prof. Selig Perlman (seated), the guest speaker; and Donal...
Fashion Dolls
November 29, 1944
University of Wisconsin freshman Rosemary Bohl posing with eight of the Wisconsin Historical Museum's collection of fashion dolls depicting fashions from the nineteenth century. The dolls were mad...
Pi Beta Phi Graduates
May 25, 1944
Three Pi Beta Phi graduates, left to right: Mary Jean Zentner, Wauwautosa, wearing cap and gown, Jo Ann Rose, Decatur, Illinois, and Mary Enneking, Madison.
Resident-Members Groves Women's Co-op House
October 1946
Group portrait of eighteen women who are resident-members of Groves Women's Cooperative House, 1104 West Johnson Street, inter-racial home for University of Wisconsin-Madison students. The cooperat...
Dean Mark Ingram
May 25, 1944
Portrait of Dean Mark H. Ingram, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin.
Getting Ready for College
August 14, 1944
Virginia Tormey, a senior at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., with her sister, Betrice, who is entering the same school as a freshman. They are shown sitting in their home, 1228 Sherman Avenue.
