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Katharine A. Church

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Katharine A. Church is shown seated outside in her backyard, paintbrush in hand, in front of an easel with a painting depicting flowers. A flower garden is...
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Labor Woman's Auxiliary Officers

Date: 08 27 1958
Description: The original caption states: "Looking at her reflection in a mirror is Irene Hubbard, president of the auxiliary to Local 1404, United Steel Workers of Ame...
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CUNA Executives

Date: 04 03 1947
Description: CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Bridge Magazine executive group. There are four men and one woman at a desk looking at materials.
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Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority Dinner

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: Epsilon Sigma Alpha, national educational sorority, business women's dinner. Group portrait of thirteen women standing behind a dinner table. The event wa...
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Brookwood Village Shopping Center Grand Opening

Date: 01 31 1958
Description: Elevated view of representatives of ten shops and two professional services gathered for the grand opening of the Brookwood Village shopping center at Nako...
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Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 10 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist, owner of the ladies' ready-to-wear and accessories store Kleist & Wiggs, gets help with dinner from her husband, Al, at home in the k...
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Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 10 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist, in front of her ladies' ready-to-wear and accessories store Kleist and Wiggs, discussing business matters with Bob Hutchings, preside...
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Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 10 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist in her store Kleist and Wiggs showing off merchandise from Mexico. She is wearing a sombrero on her head, and is holding two small sta...
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Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist, a successful owner of the women's clothing store Kleist and Wiggs, enjoying the sport of hunting. She is holding a shotgun while crou...
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Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 10 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist with her husband, Al, ready to close up her ladies' ready-to-wear and accessories store, Kleist and Wiggs, for the day.
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Manchester's Advertising Department Views Printing Press

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa...
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Eileen and William Liebman

Date: 05 11 1979
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing together; the man is standing and the woman is sitting. Behind them are several display cases with various items, some o...
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Miss T.B. McCafferty

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted quarter-length head and shoulders portrait of a woman.
Postcard

World's Largest Cheese, Made by Steve's Cheese

Date: 1965
Description: Colored postcard view of Mr. & Mrs. Steve Siudzinski, owners of Steve's Cheese, in front of a 34,591 pound block of cheddar cheese draped with prize winnin...
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Crazy Mary

Date: 1982
Description: Close-up of a woman working on a strap of leather in a shop.
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Crazy Mary's Leatherie

Date: 1982
Description: View across Williamson Street towards a woman standing in the open doorway of a shop with a sign that reads: "Crazy Mary's Leatherie." The building is on a...
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Theta Sigma Phi National Convention

Date: 06 26 1956
Description: Four Madison women to be initiated into Theta Sigma Phi as associate members are, left to right: Mrs. Albert W. (June) Brown, 1005 Woodward Drive, freelanc...
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Theta Sigma Phi National Convention

Date: 06 26 1956
Description: A "lemonade party" was held for the early arrivals to the Theta Sigma Phi National Convention in the garden at the home of University of Wisconsin Presiden...
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Theta Sigma Phi National Convention

Date: 06 26 1956
Description: Theta Sigma Phi National Convention co-chairmen are Miss Helen Matheson, 1610 Chadbourne Avenue, assistant managing editor of The Wisconsin State Journal a...
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Ladies Of The Press Breakfast

Date: 04 25 1954
Description: Mrs. Lyman Dunn of Chicago, past president of Theta Sigma Phi, chats with Mrs. Luella Mortenson, 1922 West Lawn Avenue in Madison, at the Madison Ladies of...

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