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Blackhawk Country Club "Children's Day" Dress Up

Date: 07 06 1932
Description: Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones.
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Image of three Shorewood Hills women in costume depicting fashions of the 1920s. They are Mary Olsen, Beatrice Cartwright, and Bette Cain.
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Interior of Historic Statz House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of Lenore Middleton (Mrs. Forest Middleton) posing with her cat in the antique-filled living room of her home at 3241 Highbury Road ...
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Interior of Pew House

Date: 09 26 1955
Description: Ruth Pew (Mrs. J.C.), Frances Hurst (Mrs. William), president of the Madison League of Women Voters, and Katharine Becker (Mrs. Robert M.), member of the b...
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Women Golfers Inter-Club Play

Date: 07 26 1957
Description: The three women golfers with low handicaps wait to play in the inter-club play at Blackhawk Country Club. From left are:Lindley Sprague of Maple Bluff, Lor...
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Women Golfers Inter-Club Play

Date: 07 26 1957
Description: Three of the women in charge of the monthly inter-club golf outings confer at the second round at Blackhawk Country Club. From left are: Eleanor Persons of...
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League of Women Voters House Tour

Date: 09 21 1954
Description: Mr. William Kaeser stands in front of a large fireplace at his home at 3467 Circle Close, one of the houses on the League of Women Voters' House Tour. Mrs....
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Mary Phalen

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Mary Phalen, age 95, who lives at the Veterans' Home in King, Wisconsin, was in Madison visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Merle ...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: "Blase beyond words were these three Shorewood women who came to the party in the abbreviated, waist-less, low-necked frocks characteristic of the 1920s." ...
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Two Shorewood Hills Preparatory School Women

Date: 08 21 1948
Description: Two young women from Shorewood Hills soon to leave for preparatory school. Pictured siting outside on a patio from the left are: Rosamond Ross, National Ca...
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Porter Butts House

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: Mrs. Butts pulls curtain in the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill in Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area in 1937.
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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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Women Golfers Inter-Club Play

Date: 07 26 1957
Description: Three women wait to tee off during the second round of the monthly inter-club play at the Blackhawk Country Club. From left are: Katherine Mauer of Maple B...
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Women Golfers Inter-Club Play

Date: 07 26 1957
Description: Three women golfers compare scores at the second round of the monthly inter-club play at Blackhawk Country Club. From left are Jane Savidusky of Maple Bluf...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: The 30th anniversary of the village of Shorewood Hills was celebrated by the women of the community at a costume luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club. Ga...
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Shorewood Hills Community League Party

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Three woman admire table decorations at the dessert bridge party of the Shorewood Hills Community League party. Pictured from the left are: Mrs. James L. ...
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O. Clarke & Leslie Gillett Residence

Date: 06 28 1955
Description: Leslie Gillett is sitting in her traditional antique-filled living room at 3443 Edgehill Parkway in Shorewood Hills. The home will be featured in the Attic...
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Residential Family Rooms

Date: 05 11 1956
Description: Mrs. Nelson M. (Marjorie) Hagan sits with her 6-year-old daughter Nancy in the family room in their home at 3417 Circle Close in Shorewood Hills.
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University Houses Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: The University of Wisconsin faculty band led the parade of children of University of Wisconsin faculty living in University Houses at Eagle Heights march i...
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Shorewood Hills Community League

Date: 09 21 1948
Description: Mrs. Lester W. (Dorothy) Paul, 3220 Topping Road, at left, and Mrs. Lloyd W. (Mildred) Coleman, 1123 Oak Way, at right, perusing the birth column in the

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