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Little Pink Ballot

Date: 1911
Description: Political postcard in support of a 1911 women's suffrage bill in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Wading Woman with Hat

Date: 1900
Description: Woman in wide brimmed hat wading in water.
Photograph

Women in Motorboat

Date: 1941
Description: Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake.
Photograph

Weaving Class

Date: 1929
Description: Two women weave at looms in a University of Wisconsin class.
Photograph

James Parkin

Date: 1945
Description: James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
Photograph

Woman on Bascom Hill

Date: 
Description: Woman walking up Bascom Hill in winter.
Postcard

Woman Aiming Gun

Date: 1906
Description: Woman in a dress and hat standing in a field and aiming a gun.
Photograph

Woman in front of Factory

Date: 
Description: A woman stands in front of the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company factory in Clintonville.
Photograph

Woman Talking to a Group of Women

Date: December 03 1952
Description: A woman talks to a group of women while two men stand in the background.
Photograph

Woman in Buggy

Date: 
Description: Woman and dog in a top-buggy and horse.
Photograph

Grace H. Douma, assistant to Dean of Women at Univ of Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Grace H. Douma, assistant to Dean of Women at University of Wisconsin, sits at her desk in an office.
Photograph

Woman Dressed in Ho-Chunk Clothing

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young woman dressed as a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian woman in fine jewelry and clothing.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

First white woman born in Wisconsin

Date: 1901-08-??
County: Crawford
City: Prairie du Chien
Photograph

Women in Synchronized Swimming Formation

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

Apple Blossom Time in Door County

Date: 
Description: Kodachrome postcard of a woman standing in the grass in a blossoming apple orchard. She is holding blooms in her hands.
Photograph

Diamond Grotto

Date: March 21 1881
Description: Four women gather in the Diamond Grotto, a notable land form in the Wisconsin Dells. There is a rustic bridge in the foreground.
Photograph

Two Women in Bathing Suits

Date: July 14 1944
Description: Two women in bathing suits standing on pier.
Photograph

Two Women in Swiss Costume

Date: 1941
Description: Two women in Swiss costume, possibly for the Wilhelm Tell Festival.
Photograph

Woman in Garden

Date: 
Description: A woman stands in a garden holding a plate.
Postcard

Sanatorium

Date: 1905
Description: The Sanatorium in Hudson, Wisconsin.

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