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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown at home on break seated at a sewing machine by windows. The caption reads: "Despite a daytime routine that is int...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown looking upon the pies and cookies that she bakes and freezes only on weekends because of her weekday interrupted ...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Recipes for Working Women

Date: 05 11 1959
Description: Emily Chervenik holds a tray of her jam-filled Swedish cakes that she plans to take to the Altrusa Country Fair in Cambridge. She has a collection of treas...
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Ice Cream Brings Quick Young Friends

Date: 05 28 1959
Description: Upwards of 700 children were treated to free ice cream and potato chips by Lawrence Rich (right foreground) at the rear of his grocery store at 2633 Commer...
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We Saw You . . . at Labor Day Event

Date: 09 05 1960
Description: More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Shown (L-R)...
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Wives of Soil Scientists

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Wives of soil scientists attended a get-acquainted tea at the home of UW President & Mrs. Conrad Elvehjem. Carrie Nelson, left, wife of Wisconsin's governo...
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Carol Baumann (Mrs. Richard J. Baumann)

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Carol and Dick Baumann do a lot of their household tasks together so that they will have more leisure time to spend with their baby daughter and in sharing...
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We Saw You . . . at West Side Garden Club Show

Date: 11 17 1960
Description: The West Side Garden Club holds its annual "Holiday House" show. Shown at an informal holiday table are, (L-R) Mrs. Sarah Jamieson, Properties Committee, 1...
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Atomic Fallout Shelter Demonstration Project at 457 Togstad Glen

Date: 11 18 1960
Description: An atomic fallout shelter is on display at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Hamann, 457 Togstad Glen. The shelter was built by the federal Office of Civi...
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Truax Wives Entertain

Date: 12 01 1960
Description: Standing around the tea table at a reception for wives of prominent Madison residents are, left to right: Mrs. William Waltman, pouring tea; Mrs. J.B. Davi...
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We Saw You . . . at Safety Patrol Yule Party

Date: 12 28 1960
Description: The 6th annual Madison school safety patrol Christmas party is held at the Strand Theater. The children are entertained by cartoons and a comedy feature fi...
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Restaurant Remodeling Project

Date: 01 16 1961
Description: Mrs. Dorothy Brewer poses next to artificial palm trees that are part of a remodeling project of the Red Rooster restaurant on East Washington avenue, whic...
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Graduate Students Share a House

Date: 01 10 1961
Description: One in a series of photographs of four U.W. physics graduate students who are renting a furnished home at 429 Russell Walk. In this photograph Brandt Kehoe...
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Chimba the Chimpanzee in Madison for the Zor Shrine Circus

Date: 02 17 1961
Description: Chimba the chimpanzee makes an appearance at the final Madison Zor Shrine planning meeting for the annual Shrine Circus held at the Dane County Fairgrounds...
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Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in Her Kitchen

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Description: Shirley Abrahamson in her kitchen preparing Minute Rice.

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