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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Richard McVicar's Birthday
October 28, 1930
Portrait of Richard McVicar with his birthday cake and candles on his fourth birthday.
Birthday Party at Easter
April 11, 1931
Birthday party for 4-year-old child. Shows 14 children, Easter Bunny chair, and Easter decorations.
Man with Baby
August 10, 1931
William Busse, humane officer, holding abandoned baby, Bobby LaBue (real name Bobby Yarborough of Spokane Washington).
First Baby Born in Madison in 1932
January 2, 1931
First baby born at Methodist Hospital, 1932, 309 W. Washington Avenue. Nurse Mrs. Gorden L. Fredendall is holding Brunell Winston Ethun.
Nurses with Newborns
February 2, 1934
Three baby girls were born on President Franklin Roosevelt's birthday; Beverly Ann Shepherd, held by nurse Bernice Schantz, Marilyn Joan Hauden, held by nurse Ruth Peck, and Baby Smith, daughter of...
Children at WIBA Radio Station
May 22, 1931
350 children and Uncle Bob at WIBA radio station for Uncle Bob's 23rd birthday party. Uncle Bob was host of Kayo Kiddies program.
