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House

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: Street view of a ranch-style house with a person on the roof who appears to be hanging laundry on a television aerial.
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House

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: One and one-half story house with two dormer windows on the second level. There is a "For Sale" sign posted on house next to the front door.
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Neighborhood House Exterior

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

Neighborhood House Pamphlet

Date: 1923
Description: Pamphlet advertising classes for "foreigners" to learn English at the Neighborhood House. The Neighborhood House is pictured on the pamphlet with a U.S. fl...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Ladies' Sewing Club

Date: 1956
Description: Group of Ladies' Sewing Club women posing under a tapestry at Neighborhood House.
Photograph

Neighborhood House

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House at 766 West Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

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

Neighborhood House

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Among those attending a meeting at Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are standing, Sam S. Fried, director of the Neighborhood House, and left...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Women's Good Times Club

Date: 02 1934
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Good Times Club, a social club sponsored by the settlement house.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
Photograph

Playground Equipment at Neighborhood House

Date: 
Description: Wooden playground structure on or near the grounds of Neighborhood House, with a McDonald's on Regent Street visible in the far background.
Photograph

Neighborhood House

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Among those attending a meeting at Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are R.W. Bardwell, left, and Chester Zmudzinski, director of the Madison...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Woodwork

Date: 1934
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with young men in a wood shop using hammers, saws, and other woodworking tools.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Among those attending a meeting at Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are Ina Doss, left, and Mrs. Armand Gardiner. The gathering was for neig...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Album: Summer Sewing Group

Date: 1932
Description: Group of girls in a summer sewing group at Neighborhood House, posing in their finery with Gay Braxton (back row, center, under ceiling lamp), head residen...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Member

Date: 1938
Description: Full-length view of a Neighborhood House Garden Club member standing on the front steps of her house and tending to her flower boxes while turning to face ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Easter Egg Hunt

Date: 1941
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po...
Photograph

Neighborhood House

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Among those attending a meeting at Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are left to right, Mrs. Ola Jordan, Jennie Schrage, Marguerite Judd and ...

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