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Hills Department Store

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Hills Department Store, 202 State Street at Dayton Street, with a window display of men's sport shirts.
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Sororities Open Houses

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Three women pose by a piano inside a sorority house. They are the chairman and two assistants of a benefit scholarship project sponsored by the Madison Alu...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Mrs. Norman Gill is standing and looking out of a window from inside her home at Spring Hill Farm near Cambridge, viewing the surrounding countryside and t...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: A volunteer discussing seed catalogs with two nursing home residents as they are sitting outside on lawn chairs. They are at Monona Drive Rest Home at 4202...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Makita Tomita (right), a native of Tokyo, Japan, demonstrating basic Japanese flower arrangement. Looking on at left, are Altrusa Club members Janet Jennin...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Altrusa Club member Emma Rice, in a dress and on her knees, planting a flower garden at Agehaven Nursing Home on Bridge Road, as residents Louise Cook and ...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl.
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: The 30th anniversary of the village of Shorewood Hills was celebrated by the women of the community at a costume luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club. Ga...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Attending the anniversary luncheon costumed as sophisticated debutantes of the 1927 era, are Irmgard Carpenter, Vivian Tallard, Janet Bleckwenn, and Doroth...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: "Blase beyond words were these three Shorewood women who came to the party in the abbreviated, waist-less, low-necked frocks characteristic of the 1920s." ...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Image of three Shorewood Hills women in costume depicting fashions of the 1920s. They are Mary Olsen, Beatrice Cartwright, and Bette Cain.
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Madison Schools Safety Patrol Trip to Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Madison Schools students chosen as Safety Patrol members by their schools board the train to Washington, D.C. to attend the National Assembly of School Saf...
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May Day Ceremony Held at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Veronica Goebel (of Racine) is carrying the crown of May flowers to place on the head of a Virgin Mary statue. Maids of Honor in dresses holding posies are...

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