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| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove. |
| Date: | 11 14 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse. |
| Date: | 04 11 1965 |
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| Description: | A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist. |
| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr... |
| Date: | 04 23 1963 |
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| Description: | A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms. |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
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| Description: | A portrait of an elderly Susan B. Anthony. She is known primarily for her leadership in the women's rights movement, but was also an activist for other soc... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me... |
| Date: | 08 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. George (Adelaide) Larkin at age 90. George Larkin was the son of Jonathan Larkin, Jr., member of an early Madison family which arrived in ... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob... |
| Date: | 10 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas... |
| Date: | 03 21 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of 93 year-old Helena Linkash of Hillboro who is spending the winter at the home of her nephew, Wayland D. Kauffman, 139 East Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ... |
| Date: | 08 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Dane County pioneer resident, on her 90th birthday. |
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| Description: | Civil Rights activist, Septima Clark, at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of an elderly woman sitting in a stuffed chair and wearing eyeglasses. |
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