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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Mrs. Rennebohm Baking

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Description: Mary Fowler Rennebohm wearing an apron and sifting flour. Mrs. Rennebohm was the wife of Oscar Rennebohm, founder of the Rennebohm Drug Store chain and go...
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Nguyen Family Birthday Party

Date: 1984
Description: The Nguyen family and a friend pose together at home as they celebrate Thuy Nguyen's 10th birthday. From left to right in front are: Mary, Thuy (in a blue ...
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Lewis and LuRay Arms's Wedding Day

Date: 09 1956
Description: Lewis Arms and his new wife LuRay pose in their wedding clothes, cutting the wedding cake.
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Lewis Arms with Daughter Rita

Date: 1957
Description: Lewis Arms sits on a bed feeding his infant daughter Rita Arms (Witter).
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Governor Earl

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Description: Governor Anthony Earl speaking at a political tribute taking place at the Edgewater Hotel.
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: The Little Housekeepers

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls in the T.T. Club performing household duties. One image shows club members practicing bathing ...
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: Cooking and Making Beds

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images of T.T. Club members. On image shows girls using a hand beater and stirring a pot on the ...
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: A Swell Time

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two T.T. Club images, one of two girls tending to another girl who is in bed ("and a tray for Katie"...
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Neighborhood House Album: Bluebirds and Sewing Class

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with two images. The one on top is of the Bluebirds girls' group playing musical instruments as adults lead ...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Afghan for Red Cross

Date: 1941
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Preparing Vases - U.S.O.

Date: 1943
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group.
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Adult Sewing Group

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three women working on sewing pattern pieces: two women are sitting at a table with a box of patter...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman Pinning Pattern

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman at Sewing Machine

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot...
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Neighborhood House: Boys in Meal Line at Camp

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han...

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