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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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Hill's Window Display of Dolls

Date: 09 19 1951
Description: Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, window display of dolls and dollhouse in the background. "We've been sitting around all summer, Now the heat is ...
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Shopping on the Capitol Square

Date: 1956
Description: Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday.
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Jaycettes' Fashion Show

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Two of the younger models in the Jaycettes' fashion show pose with a Raggedy Andy doll. Arthur Gallagher Field, age 3 1/2, and his sister, Betty Ann, 5 1/...
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 03 1950
Description: Portrait of Martha Lynne Dean, age 5 1/2, with one of her Japanese dolls, and her parents Mrs. and Major William A. Dean, who are returned from Kyoto, Japa...
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Merci Train French Doll Exhibit

Date: 07 28 1950
Description: Nine dolls dressed in costumes of provincial France, donated by their French owners in gratitude to the people of Wisconsin for their contribution to the F...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi...
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Harriet Mead Haas

Date: 12 29 1950
Description: Mrs. Harriet Mead Haas is presented with a doll called "Red Feather Kid" and silver pin for her services to the Madison Community Chest. At left is Francis...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Goldye Mohr standing at the bedside of Sidney Hargrove, age 2.
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Joe Oesterle's Japanese Doll Collection

Date: 11 01 1951
Description: Joe Osterle, 2411 Monroe Street, is pictured with his collection of handmade Japanese dolls. Mr. Osterle, a Korean War veteran, collected the dolls and oth...
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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 17 1951
Description: Individuals standing beside a table laden with a collection of one hundred sixty dolls and stuffed animals collected at a square dance for the Wisconsin...
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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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Antique Dolls

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: The doll collection of Mrs. Roman (Doris) Hilgers standing on a dresser, showcasing the fashion clothing she made for them.
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Baby Week

Date: 04 16 1952
Description: Portrait of twenty-month-old Emily Jane Kiekfofer standing on a sofa.
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University Club Dance

Date: 12 21 1953
Description: Four youth admire a large Santa Claus doll at the University Club's dance for high school and college-age children of club members. From left, they are: Wi...
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Beth Israel Bazaar

Date: 09 26 1954
Description: Five women admire some dolls as they prepare items for their annual public bazaar. Seated left to right, are: Judith Stein, Mrs. George Stewart, and Roslyn...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 10 23 1954
Description: Rebecca Rae Rodgerson, age three, hugs a doll she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The club, sponsored by the ...
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Visiting Relatives and Former Residents

Date: 07 17 1956
Description: Rosemary Rice of Anchorage visits her grandparents, Atty. and Mrs. Lucius A. Squire.
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Babysitting the Charlton Children

Date: 08 07 1956
Description: Babysitter Linda Taylor comforts Delia Charlton.
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Patrica Ann Patzer

Date: 09 04 1956
Description: Patrica Ann Patzer sits in a chair holding a teddy bear and doll. She recently fell 35 feet from a porch window to the ground.

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