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Interior of Pew House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Ruth Pew (Mrs. J.C.), Frances Hurst (Mrs. William), president of the Madison League of Women Voters, and Katharine Becker (Mrs. Robert M.), member of the b...
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Historic Kitchen Interior

Date: 01 08 1953
Description: View of the kitchen in the home of Lenore and Forrest Middleton at 3241 Highbury Road. The kitchen was built in 1853 by Joseph Statz and includes various e...
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Children and Their Pets

Date: 04 02 1949
Description: Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred...
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Blackhawk Country Club Addition

Date: 04 13 1950
Description: Interior view of the lounge in the newly completed $66,000 addition to the Blackhawk Country Club, whose large picture windows overlook Lake Mendota. The n...
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Porter Butts House

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: Interior view of the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill, Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area, built in 1937. The seat...
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Unitarian Meeting House Interior View

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Description: Interior view of the Auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The Wright furniture has been arranged to illustr...
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Meeting House Loggia

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Description: Children seated around a triangular table in the loggia (hallway) of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed meeting house of the First Unitarian Society. They ap...
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The John and Lulu Malin House

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Lulu Malin sitting at a folding table in front of a picture window in the guest alcove at one end of the large recreation room in the John and Lulu Malin h...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Geraldine Fitzpatrick, of 1504 Sumac Drive in Shorewood Hills, decorates her home for Christmas with children Cecelia (age 4), Gerry (age 6), and Lynn (age...
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Unitarian Dinner

Date: 12 10 1954
Description: Rev. Max Gaebler, standing at the lower right, addressing a gathering at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. This view, looking toward the rear of t...
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Unitarian Meeting House Curtain

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Description: This view of a fund raising event in the auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeting House, shows the woven curtain that ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Doffs His Hat

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hearth Room of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. Wright was there to give a speech to be aired later on the Omnibus tele...
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Unitarian Meeting House Curtain

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Description: This view of a holiday fund raising event in the auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society meeting house shows the woven curtai...
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Residential Family Rooms

Date: 05 11 1956
Description: Mrs. Nelson M. (Marjorie) Hagan sits with her 6-year-old daughter Nancy in the family room in their home at 3417 Circle Close in Shorewood Hills.
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Women Golfers Inter-Club Play

Date: 07 26 1957
Description: Three of the women in charge of the monthly inter-club golf outings confer at the second round at Blackhawk Country Club. From left are: Eleanor Persons of...
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Leonore Middleton at Home

Date: 1950
Description: View through room towards Leonore Middleton, in another room, holding a majolica plate. She is sitting next to an open dish dresser which holds other potte...

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