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Caroline Peterson Arranging Flowers

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Caroline Peterson, noted flower arrangement artist from Hawaii, stands beside a floral arrangement on a wooden buffet. The photograph was probably taken a...
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Caroline Peterson Arranging Flowers

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Caroline Peterson of Honolulu, Hawaii, recognized expert in flower arranging, will give a public presentation today at 3 PM at the Great Room of the Memori...
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R. Glenn Weiss, Widower Raising Five Children

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: R. Glenn Weiss watches as his two oldest daughters, Caroline, 15, and Christine, 13, make sandwiches for a family picnic.
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Shorewood Hills Kindergarten

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: Shorewood Hills kindergarteners shown constructing furniture. From left to right are: Caroline Lindberg; Armond Moll; Margit Johnson; John Marshall Nelso...
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New Madison Maennerchor Flag

Date: 07 17 1952
Description: Caroline and Otto Niemann with the new Madison Maennerchor flag, a gift of the Niemanns to replace the previous flag lost in a 1940 fire.
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West Side Businessman's Auxiliary Officers

Date: 01 09 1957
Description: Group portrait of the new officers of the West Side Businessmen's auxiliary. Seated left to right: Caroline Blawusch, Harriet Williams, Ruth Egan. Standing...
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We Saw You at Shrine Dinner

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Shown at the speakers table at the Shrine banquet are, left to right, Mrs. Cromer Chapman with her mother, Gladys Wundrow; Caroline Schwingel with her daug...
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We Saw You at a Combined Meeting

Date: 02 21 1956
Description: Ethel Trenary (left), Eloise Keller, Caroline Thompson, Mrs. Graham Hovey, and Prof. Graham Hovey, speaker at the event, chat at the annual joint meeting o...
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Newcomers

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Mrs. Edward Pier (Helen) Roemer and Dr. Roemer's twin sisters, Caroline and Kate, freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, live in Shorewood Hills. Dr. Roe...
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The...
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R. Glenn Weiss, Widower Raising Five Children

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: R. Glenn Weiss, a widower, is raising his five children alone. The girls, from left to right, are Christine, 18; Martha, 8; and Caroline, 15. The boys are...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Variety Show

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: Dancers in three German folk dances given by the the Badgerettes unit include, left to right: Caroline Doersch, Mrs. Dean Hoppmann, Marlene Smedema, and Ar...
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Kirkpatrick Grandchildren

Date: 08 15 1956
Description: The Kirkpatrick grandchildren sitting on a couch for a group portrait. They include, left to right: Thomas, Jane, Carol, John, Richard, David, and Janet. T...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
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Chameleon Club Party

Date: 02 22 1958
Description: Two couples attending the Chameleon Dancing Club party at the Blackhawk Country Club are, left to right: Don Messner, Dorothy Cleary, Dr. Gerald Cleary, an...
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Foreign Students Visiting Governor Goodland

Date: 11 1946
Description: Foreign students at the University of Wisconsin visit Governor Walter Goodland in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The visit was arranged by Caro...
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United Church Women Breakfast

Date: 07 20 1955
Description: United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. Ilma Wallenfeldt (left), ...
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West Side Business Men's Association, Auxiliary Officers

Date: 01 18 1961
Description: New officers of the auxiliary to the West Side Business Men's Association are shown. In front are Ethel Wood, vice-president, and Mrs. Ned Lawrence, presi...
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Students with Clothing for Clothing Drive Collection

Date: 05 01 1945
Description: Eleven students from Highlands-Mendota holding clothes collected for the Madison and Dane County clothing drive. Pictured are room captains, first row left...

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