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Making Dolls

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth.
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Women With Hand-Crafted Dolls

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o...
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Doll Dresses

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Wisconsin Dames club members sewing doll dresses for dolls to be sold at the Christmas bazaar. Proceeds to be used to purchase Christmas baskets for needy...
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Blessed Sacrament School

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior bedroom in the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue. Built as a carriage house for James and Minnie Corry, in 1911, it was remodeled as a r...
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Classroom at Christmastime

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,...
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Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1902
Description: Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll.
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Antique Dolls

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Mrs. Roman (Doris) Hilgers posing with some of her collection of dolls for which she has made fashion clothing over the past five years.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Annual Meeting

Date: 10 15 1958
Description: Group portrait of attendees of the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Members of the decorating committee ...
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Children Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Ponkratz girls sitting around the Christmas tree. Two girls are sitting on the left, with the older girl holding a doll, and the youn...
Poster

Pour que vos enfants ne connaissent plus les horreurs de la guerre, souscrivez á l'Emprunt National

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman standing and holding in her arms a small child wearing a nightgown. They are next to a bed with a doll resting on th...
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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 21 1954
Description: Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House.
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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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Birthday Breakfast

Date: 08 30 1928
Description: Barbara Brumder, center, is looking at the camera while sitting at a dining table which is set for breakfast. There is a floral arrangement in the center o...
Postcard

Land of Make Believe

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Land of Make Believe in the Center of Door County. Unique Museum. Largest Collection Anywhere. Old Marshall Field Window Mechanical...

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