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Decorating First Apartment
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Newlyweds George and Lorna Homes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. The couple is shown hanging up a bedsheet to serve as a window curtain.
April 17, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Decorating First Apartment
April 17, 1950
Newlyweds George and Lorna Holmes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. Lorna is painting a living room wall as George is looking on.
Decorating First Apartment
April 17, 1950
Newlyweds George and Lorna Homes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. George places his oil painting "Russian Spring" on the wall as Lorna is looking on.
Porter Butts House
May 29, 1950
Mrs. Butts pulls curtain in the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill in Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area in 1937.
Nursery Room
September 19, 1951
8-month old Billy Gately of 4210 Nakoma Road standing in his crib in a nursery decorated with colorful stuffed animal print drapes.
Peter Smith, Joan Holm Wedding
June 20, 1953
Newlyweds Joan Marie Holm and Peter Byrd Smith in a car following the wedding service at First Baptist church.
John and Marilyn Knutson Apartment
October 7, 1953
A dining set standing inside the dining room in the apartment of John and Marilyn Knutson.
