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Night School

Date: 05 1940
Description: Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House.
Photograph

Baby Clinic

Date: 1921
Description: A mother and infant in a baby carriage pose at the end of a row of wicker baby carriages in front of what is probably the Neighborhood House.
Postcard

Woman's Club Building

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior of the Woman's Club Building, 240 West Gilman Street. Built from 1904 to 1908, the building was designed by J.K. Cady, architect. Caption reads: ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Exterior

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House, Madison's only settlement house.
Photograph

Group of Children

Date: 1925
Description: Group portrait of children and one adult, all probably of Italian descent.
Poster

Students for a Democratic Society Protest Poster

Date: 11 01 1970
Description: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest in Detroit, November 3, 1970. Text at the top reads: "Nov. 3 — Elections Are A Hoax!" Handwritten on the le...
Postcard

Madison Woman's Club Building

Date: 1914
Description: An exterior view of the Madison Woman's Club Building, 240 West Gilman Street. Built from 1904 to 1908, the building was designed by J.K. Cady, architect. ...
Poster

"Walk for Development" Poster

Date: 10 1971
Description: Poster publicizing a "Walk for Development" event, put on by Young World Development. Features three fists with different skin tones, and the motto, "The R...
Poster

Women's Action Movement

Date: 02 08 1971
Description: Poster advertising the all campus meeting for the women's action movement. The poster features nine identical portraits of a woman.
Poster

"Mr. Natural Talks 'Bout Lettuce"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi...
Poster

"Join the SMC"

Date: 04 20 1971
Description: Poster promoting the Student Mobilization Committee and its goals to end the war in Southeast Asia. Features protesters tying down a caricatured figure of...
Poster

"The Women are Coming"

Date: 04 23 1971
Description: Poster promoting the "Survival Revival Women's Conference." The poster features an American flag patterned castle in flames with a parade of women marching...
Poster

"Science for the People"

Date: 06 06 1971
Description: Poster advertising the role of science in society. Features a butterfly, and a hand holding a flower, with text filling the interior of the design.
Poster

Science Fiction Movies

Date: 11 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising the screening of Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, Them!, and The Bowery Boys 'Mr. Hex'. Features an image of a planeta...
Print

Madison Dry League Card

Date: 1914
Description: Card from Madison Dry League pledging support to those who seek to eliminate saloons in the city of Madison. The organization's slogan was, "A happy, sober...
Historical Object

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of the American Youth Hostel log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in a Neighborhood House summer program for girls (later trips ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: First Hostel Trip

Date: 06 19 1940
Description: First page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with images of bicyclists posed b...
Photograph

Bicyclists Posed in Front of Neighborhood House

Date: 06 19 1940
Description: Six girls with their bicycles standing in front of Neighborhood House at 768 W. Washington Avenue, ready to depart on the first bike hosteling trip sponsor...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Second Hostel Trip

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the Neighborhood House log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by the settlement house, with images of girls on their bikes and resting on a d...
Photograph

Bicylists Posing with Feet on Handlebars

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Two girls posing with their feet on the handlebars of their bikes, while one of the girls whistles with two fingers and a third girl (also whistling and mu...

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