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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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Child with Doll

Date: 09 1964
Description: An unidentified child wearing a dress is sitting on a small chair, holding hands with a doll sitting next to her in another chair. The doll is the same siz...
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Works Progress Administration Handicraft Project Ethnic Dolls

Date: 1935
Description: Four dolls are dressed in costumes of unidentified origin. The dolls are wooden and do not possess facial features. The dolls have been posed as two pairs.
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Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Three dolls are posed together. One is wearing a veil. Caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mrs. Henry A. [Ruth] Pochmann, Madison, in an exhibit in...
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Four Dolls

Date: 1935
Description: Four dolls are posed together. Two porcelain dolls are seated on a small wicker chair, and the chair is flanked by two other dolls. A caption reads: "Doll ...
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Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. The smallest — an African-American doll — is seated in a miniature chair. The caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mr...
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Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. Two are wearing veils and a third is wearing a hat. Photo caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mrs Henry A. [Ruth] Po...
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Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Farmer Stevens Doll Exhibit

Date: 1909
Description: Sixteen dolls are posed together, with some seated and some standing. The caption reads: "Dolls owned by Mrs. Breese J. [Mary Elizabeth Farmer] Stevens, 40...
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Jeannette Holt, Harriet Stroh and the Home-made Swing

Date: 1904
Description: Jeannette Holt and Harriet Stroh are sitting and lying in the grass while playing with three dolls. Two of the dolls are sitting on a swing, made of sticks...
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Nola Franklin and Doll

Date: 1918
Description: Nola Franklin (daughter of Jerome Francis Franklin Jr.) holding a baby doll. It is summer and she is standing in front of the Franklin Hardware Store and E...
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Yule Tea for Homemakers Club Members

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Five-year-old Kristine Johnson holding a handmade Santa Claus doll at the Christmas tea for Dane County Homemakers Clubs.
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Kappa Sigma fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority members are entertaining a group of children, who each were given numerous presents. In the center, a...
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Madison Family Home from England for a Visit

Date: 03 27 1958
Description: Mrs. Mary Ellen Tank (wife of Martin Tank), with her children Jeffrey, (7) and Holly, (9). Martin Tank has been economic counselor and deputy director of t...
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Jeannette Holt's Fifth Birthday in Oconto

Date: 05 08 1901
Description: Jeannette Holt is posing with her doll who is sitting in a wicker baby carriage. In the background are the stairs leading up to the Holt family home. Capti...
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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...
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New Doll

Date: 08 30 1928
Description: Barbara Brumder, daughter of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, posing standing outdoors holding a large doll, a gift for her tenth birthday. The doll ...
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Empty Stocking Club Recipient

Date: 11 25 1958
Description: An unnamed 4-year-old girl holds close her new doll. The Empty Stocking Club was founded in 1919 by the Wisconsin State Journal 'to guarantee that n...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1922
Description: A Christmas tree stands in the corner of a living room furnished with a tufted sofa, left, and harp floor lamp. On the far right is a desk or writing table...

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