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Gay Arts Festival Flyer

Date: 1977
Description: The Madison Committee for Gay Rights sponsored the Gay Arts Festival in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus,...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Character Studies

Date: 1941
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views each of four women, each posing in a chair, casting a shadow on the wall behind her.
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Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad...
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Neighborhood House Album: Camp Fire Girls

Date: 1934
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Camp Fire Girls posing on and around a sofa. The Camp Fire Girls was one of many youth group...
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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...
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Wisconsin Press Photographers Association Queen

Date: 01 26 1952
Description: Jean Henriksen, a Madison Capital Times librarian, poses as the queen of the Wisconsin Press Photographers Association at the group's meeting in Milwaukee.
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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...
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club and Miss Griggs

Date: 1932
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with T.T. Club members gathered around a piano while Mary Lee Griggs, director of the Play School, plays acc...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: The Little Housekeepers

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls in the T.T. Club performing household duties. One image shows club members practicing bathing ...
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Neighborhood House Album: Kiwalan Christmas

Date: 12 1935
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Kiwalan Camp Fire girls with preschoolers, posing at a Christmas celebration near a tree decorated w...
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Pi Lambda Theta

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Mrs. Lettie P. Trefz, national vice-president of Pi Lambda Theta, stands between Evelyn Simonson (left), vice-president of the Wisconsin chapter, and Doris...
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Neighborhood House Album: Feast of the Little Lanterns Play

Date: 05 1927
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with cast members of "Feast of the Little Lanterns," a production staged by the Fireside Girls club. The ...
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Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: Cooking and Making Beds

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images of T.T. Club members. On image shows girls using a hand beater and stirring a pot on the ...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Children

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ...
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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...
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Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Wiener Roasts

Date: 07 18 1940
Description: Page from the log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House. Trip participants were Anita Genna, Florence Quartuccio, Lily Caruso, Franc...

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