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| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Carroll V. Sweet is shown in the garden at her home at 163 North Prospect Avenue. She is one of ten hostesses for the third annual home and garden ben... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nic J. Schmitz sits in the living room of the new pink brick New England Colonial home where she and her husband live at 607 Farwell Drive. The home i... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter M. (Cecilia) Maas, Jr. will open her contemporary colonial home at 4029 Council Crest for the Attic Angel Association third annual benefit Hous... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Leslie (Jean) Antonius of 325 Lakewood Boulevard is in the living room of her traditional home, one of ten on the Attic Angel third annual benefit Hou... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter (Genevieve) Dakin sits in the garden of her home at 4110 Mandan Crescent. The garden is one chosen for the Attic Angel Association benefit Home... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Lynne Mapes, Truax Field, chairman of the sixth annual rodeo sponsored by the Lions Club, talks with Frank Holmes, Mrs. Mapes, and Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Will Holmes of Syene Road cooks meat for two Lions Club rodeo committee members and their wives. Left to right are G.I. Wallace, 2731 Mason Street; Mrs. (A... |
| Date: | 07 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Leo J. Merkel of 1925 West Lawn Avenue; Mrs. Hal Halfmamn of 440 Marston Avenue; Mr. Halfman; A. J. Sticha of 1109 Ridgewood Avenue, and Mrs. (Margaret) St... |
| Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Company operators are shown with Christmas baskets of food to be delivered to the needy. Left to right: Barbara Gardner, Ione Wall, Van... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Harriet Langsdorf and Nellie Westmont of the Antioch temple, Daughters of the Nile, admire some of the sewing which members have made for the Shrine Hospit... |
| Date: | 03 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Gertrude M. Edwards (far right), Iroquois, South Dakota, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, was guest of honor at a luncheon and receptio... |
| Date: | 04 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Three Phi Beta Phi alumnae members posing with Arrowcraft products. The sorority will be selling the products to benefit the Settlement School of Gatlenbur... |
| Date: | 04 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Soroptimist Club fill Easter baskets with candies. The baskets will be given to children at Morningside Sanatorium. Left to right: Regi... |
| Date: | 05 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Esther Fayville holds a pair of unusual glasses from among those collected for "New Eyes for the Needy" by Delta Gamma alumnae. |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Makita Tomita (right), a native of Tokyo, Japan, demonstrating basic Japanese flower arrangement. Looking on at left, are Altrusa Club members Janet Jennin... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Mabel Stagg (right) presents a check from the Madison Soroptimist Club to two representatives of HEAR (hearing, education, and rehabilitation) to sponsor d... |
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