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Television

Date: 1950
Description: A young woman is displaying a television set.
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Reading to the Elderly

Date: 04 01 1960
Description: A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman.
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Olympia Brown as a Young Woman

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Description: Rev. Olympia Brown, as a young woman.
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Women Aviators

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Description: Studio portrait of women who are taking flying lessons. Several of the women are dressed in furs.
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James Parkin

Date: 1945
Description: James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
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Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with a Group of Women

Date: 1962
Description: Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with a group of mostly women. He was the Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1959 until 1969.
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Woman with Toasters

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Description: Woman comparing toaster wattages.
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Unidentified Woman

Date: 09 07 1948
Description: Portrait of unidentified woman.
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Home Economics

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Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Ho-Chunk woman standing, Josephine Pettibone, Decorah, Davis.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Laboratory

Date: 1923
Description: Three women mend and sew articles of clothing in the University of Wisconsin home economics laboratory.
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Elizabeth David

Date: 1878
Description: Hand-tinted, round-framed portrait of a woman.
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Unidentified Woman

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Description: Formal studio photograph of a woman standing next to a chair.
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Woman with Oven

Date: 1950
Description: A woman displays an oven.
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Associated Women Students Co-ed Week

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: As part of Co-ed's Week, an event designed to combine features of special interest to college women, three University of Wisconsin women look over a copy o...
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Women at Table

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Description: Five women are sitting at a table set for perhaps a Valentine's Day party. The setting was likely a Home Economics project for the women at the Northern Wi...
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Women Sorting Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: A row of women sort cranberries on a conveyor belt at the Walker Cranberry Company. They are wearing jackets and hairnets. The woman in the foreground is w...
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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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Inspecting Peas

Date: 1975
Description: Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari...
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Women in Synchronized Swimming Formation

Date: 05 12 1927
Description: Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison Dolphin Club women in the Lathrop swimming pool in a synchronized swimming formation.

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