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| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Luella Mortenson, women's director for bot... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Fern Fowler demonstrates a plant made of t... |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Four men complete woodworking tasks at Neighborhood House, the oldest community center in Madison. It was established in 1916. |
| Date: | 08 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Garland Smith, art supervisor in summer crafts for the Madison board of education summer playground program, stands in front of a display of items made by ... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Erdine Stamm is shown rosemalling a wooden plate at the Madison Art Guild workshop in the recreation room of the Brobst home, 211 Lathrop Street. |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Cashel is sitting on a sofa with a crocheted bedspread she made. It will be displayed at the Madison Catholic Women's Club hobby show. |
| Date: | 11 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Woodcraft articles by Frank F. France will be among the many items sold at the sixth annual Homecrafters Fair at Scanlan Hall in the Madison Vocational and... |
| Date: | 06 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Larry A. Jacobson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert R. (Alice) Jacobson, 572 Gately Terrace, is putting wheels onto his car for the Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 11 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Four alumnae of the Madison Pi Beta Phi sorority looking at a collection of Arrowcraft products handmade by a Settlement school at Gatlinburg, TN. The item... |
| Date: | 06 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Bobby Bing, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. (Mary) Bing, 4306 Tokay Blvd, works on his car for the Soap Box Derby. Watching him are his two younger sisters, Gay,... |
| Date: | 11 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Nativity creche (belonging to Mrs. Fred Chamberlin, 3475 West Belt Line?). |
| Date: | 11 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Fern Fowler, WMTV show host, with Christmas candles that she made. |
| Date: | 03 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women at a table cutting paper shamrocks of different sizes. They are making the holiday crafts at a dining room table. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Group of girls making baskets, as an older girl or woman demonstrates a technique. Neighborhood House sponsored many groups and activities, such as basketr... |
| Date: | 10 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug. |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two Catholic Women's Club members with their hobbies to be displayed at the Club's first hobby show. On the left is Mrs. Kathleen Huels who rai... |
| Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Marie Shrout, 1102 Grant Street, preparing Christmas tree decorations with her children, Jim, 13, Patrick, 3, Douglas, 4, Susan, 9, Michael, 7, and St... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Walter Maas of 4029 Council Crest making hand-made Christmas gifts for wife, Cecelia, and children, Twig and Robin. |
| Date: | 01 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Cub Scout James Beckman, right, demonstrates tying knots to (from left): LaVern Wahlin, Bob Hilliard, John Streiff, and Billy Hoppe. Den mother Freda Hilli... |
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