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| Date: | 11 14 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Beverly Ann Steffen of Appleton is crowned the 1952 Alice in Dairyland. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | International Harvester AR-100 Air Conditioner covered with a patterned material that matches nearby curtains. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for International Harvester decorator air conditioners. Features images of air conditioners covered with fabric to match their surrounding de... |
| Date: | 02 08 1950 |
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| Description: | "Chintz Bar" showing Chintz fabric in the drapery department of Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 07 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Show window at Hill's Store, 202 State Street, featuring a display of Flextex two-way-stretch slipcovers. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas NAACP, stands behind seven of the Little Rock Nine, who are seated on a sofa in her living room. They have assembled ... |
| Date: | 10 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A corner desk and bookshelf in the Cornish miner's cottage on Shake Rag Street called Trelawny. The cottage was restored under the ownership of Robert M. N... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the John George Ott home, 754 Jenifer Street, built in 1873. Ott, a Swiss immigrant, served as an alderman and county supervisor. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Pierce home at 424 North Pinckney Street. The house was built about 1857. |
| Date: | 01 25 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the living room of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. (Sylvia) Killian, 3814 Hillcrest Drive, including the large picture window framed by dr... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Dining "L" of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. (Sylvia) Killian, 3814 Hillcrest Drive, featuring a geometic patterned paper on one wall that uses t... |
| Date: | 02 06 1950 |
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| Description: | In the living room, a corner of 120 degree angles make the changing of wall direction gradual rather than abrupt. A bookcase is built into a nook at the ri... |
| Date: | 02 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the boys' bedroom in the new home of Harold and Monona Schantz, located at 310 Kensington Drive. |
| Date: | 03 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The living room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Scholl on East Montroe Street. Mrs. Scholl is seated in a lipstick red chair next to the Lannon stone fireplace... |
| Date: | 03 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The decor of the dining room "L" in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scholl, located on East Monroe Street, repeats the colors used in the living room of... |
| Date: | 03 09 1950 |
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| Description: | The Stately drawing room is full of shades of green and lilac, repeated in the flowered draperies. Conversation pieces on the mantel and elsewhere about t... |
| Date: | 03 10 1950 |
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| Description: | A bed and wooden chest stand in the master bedroom of the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Brainard. The home was the former 1878 "old Don Johnson farm" in Bear V... |
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