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Women in a Parlour

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Description: Four women are posing sitting in a parlor in front of an organ. One of the women is sitting on the floor holding a kitten.
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Tea Room / Restaurant (?)

Date: 1920
Description: Woman and child standing in a room with three tables covered in tablecloths. Caption reads: "Dodgeville, Wis."
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Woman with Book of Madison Men and Women in Service

Date: 04 07 1945
Description: Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t...
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University of Wisconsin Biological Laboratory

Date: 06 07 1990
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison biological laboratory. Two women are standing in the center of the room at a sink, and men and women sit at tables on the r...
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Parkinson Home on Ludington Street

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Description: Five women are posing in front of a house on a stoop and porch. They are all wearing hats, skirts, and blouses, and one woman is sitting in a rocking chair...
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Kelvinator School, Loraine Hotel

Date: 05 11 1934
Description: Woman lecturing to a large group of women at the Kelvinator School, in the Loraine Hotel.
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Cottage at Birchcliff Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: View across lawn of a guest cottage at the Birchcliff Hotel. A woman is seated in the screened-in porch.
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Pool Players, Wisconsin Telephone Company Lounge

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Five men employees play pool in the Pioneer Lounge, Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street, with four women observing.
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Upper Dining Room University of Wisconsin-Madison Men's Refectory

Date: 07 17 1934
Description: Men and women eating in Upper Dining Room, University of Wisconsin-Madison Van Hise Men's Refectory, 1220 Linden Drive.
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A Hammock Outing

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Description: A group of people gathered on and around hammocks in a wooded area. Three women are sitting in a hammock on the left, and on the right three boys are sitti...
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Two Women at a Camp Site/Woman Sitting in Chair (Double Exposure)

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Description: Main image: Outdoor view of two women standing at a table under a canopy in front of a tent at a camp site. Secondary image: Seen faintly in the awning are...
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Sign Language Class

Date: 11 15 1954
Description: Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. James Stockton studies the sign ...
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Madison Diocesan Convention

Date: 06 08 1965
Description: Three women confering at the convention of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at Edgewood College. In this portrait are Mrs. Fred Segebrecht, B...
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Cave at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Sunlit opening of a large carved out man-made cave with a park bench in the foreground in Irvine Park. The figure of a woman in the cave is obscured by sha...
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Citizens at East Side Hearing

Date: 1949
Description: Thirty citizens, men dressed in suits, two women wearing hats, sit in attendance at a city council hearing proposing an east side emergency hospital.
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Playing Instruments in a Parlor

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Description: Two men and a woman are posing sitting in a parlor and holding musical instruments. The woman is sitting on the right in front of a piano playing a banjo. ...
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Time in Mount Horeb

Date: 07 2014
Description: An elderly man and woman are sitting at a table near the front window of a coffeehouse. Just outside the window a man and woman are sitting outdoors under ...
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Verona Fish Fry

Date: 06 10 1960
Description: A man, two women and a child are gathered around a table eating a fish fry. One of the women is standing in the center.
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Soldiers & Women in KC Clubroom

Date: 07 12 1945
Description: Group of soldiers and young women sitting around two food tables in the Knights of Columbus club room at 15 East Wilson Street.
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People Eating in a Classroom

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Description: Indoor group portrait of men and women posing sitting in a classroom and eating. Identified as a classroom in the high school building built in 1897.

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