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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Bonita Gill, Marcia Gulrud, Jeanette Braxton, and Ann Gulrud admiring the dolls they made dresses for during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The do...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres...
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St. Paul African Methodist Summer Bible School

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Children learning a song in the two-week summer Bible school at the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church located at 631 East Dayton Street.
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St. Paul African Methodist Summer Bible School

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Young girls are raising their voices in song at the two-week summer Bible school at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church, located at 631 East Dayton...
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St. Paul African Methodist Summer Bible School

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Five youngsters attending the two-week summer Bible school at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church located at 631 East Dayton Street.
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St. Paul African Methodist Summer Bible School

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Patsy Caire praying at the two-week summer Bible school at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church located at 631 East Dayton Street.
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We Saw You . . . at Madison Libraries

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: The Madison Bookmobile makes eleven stops in the city. Shown in the bookmobile are (left to right): Mrs. Tom Newport and son, Jim (5437 Dahlen Drive); libr...
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Activities at the South Madison Neighborhood Center

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: Benjie Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Henderson (1907 Baird Street), attends the nursery school conducted by Miss Mary Lee Griggs two times a week at...
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Activities at the Neighborhood House

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har...
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: Elevated view of a large group of African-American children. They are attending summer Bible school at their church, Second Baptist Church at 827 Mound str...
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: Three African-American pre-school girls peer out from behind a church pew at summer bible school.
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: A group of African-American children singing hymns at their church, Second Baptist Church at 827 Mound street. One girl is looking toward the photographer ...
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Summer Bible School at Second Baptist Church

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: A group of children attending Bible school. In the foreground a 3 year old boy is sucking his thumb as he is leaning into the embrace of an older sister be...
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Water Fight on a Hot Summer Day

Date: 09 02 1960
Description: Two African-American boys shooting water pistols at each other on a hot summer day while sitting on front porch steps.
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New Members of the Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: Standing on a desk in the Assembly Chamber is Beth Coggs, four-year-old daughter of Assemblyman Isaac Coggs, a Democrat from Milwaukee. She is holding a do...

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