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New Christ Presbyterian Church Under Construction

Date: 08 09 1961
Description: The foundations of a new home for the Christ Presbyterian Church rise at N. Brearly and E. Gorham Streets. The new church will replace the church currently...
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Two Sisters Wed Two Brothers and Share House

Date: 08 04 1961
Description: Brothers Edward and Oscar Saalsaa wed sisters Helen and Doris Andrews in 1942. They all lived together and farmed together. Doris and Oscar Saalsaa (left)...
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Sun Prairie Corn Festival

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: Mary Heisler of Sun Prairie carefully eats an ear of corn at the annual corn festival.
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University of Wisconsin Extension Building Construction

Date: 08 09 1961
Description: Construction of the University of Wisconsin's new Extension building on Lake Street between University Avenue and State Street.
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Students Attend National Student Association Congress in Madison

Date: 08 16 1961
Description: Nearly 1,000 student representatives from most of the colleges and universities in the United States attend the 14th annual National Students Association (...
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Sun Prairie Corn Festival

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: Billy Stevenson (9) of Madison is shown finishing his sixth ear of corn at the Sun Prairie corn festival.
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Sun Prairie Corn Festival

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: An unnamed rural DeForest area man is shown eating an ear of corn at the Sun Prairie Corn Festival.
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Wisconsin Telephone Co. Building New Construction

Date: 08 14 1961
Description: Construction of an addition to the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building at 17 S. Fairchild St. The addition provides for a fourth floor on the older rear porti...
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Wisconsin Department of Transportation Building Construction

Date: 08 16 1961
Description: Foundations are being poured for the new nine-story Wisconsin State Department of Transportation Building on University Avenue and Segoe Road.
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Centralites Women's Softball Team

Date: 08 16 1961
Description: Group portrait of the Centralites of the city Softball League. They were the League champions in 1961. Team members, left to right are: front row - Nancy M...
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Site for Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 08 09 1961
Description: The new Rennebohm drugstore at 919-921 University Avenue is nearing completion. It will replace one located in the first floor of the First National Bank b...
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Traffic Patrolman James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Mrs. James C. Jantz, wife of the slain policeman, holding the arm of her mother, Mrs. Roger Keith, and leaning on the shoulder of her brother, Jerome Boyer...
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New Madison General Hospital Wing Groundbreaking

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: Gordon N. Johnsen, Madison General hospital administrator, turns a shovel of dirt at the ground-breaking ceremony for the addition of a new six-story wing....
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Traffic Patrolman, James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: A relative, left, tries to comfort Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jantz, parents of slain policeman James C. Jantz, at their son's graveside after the funeral servi...
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Roundy Coughlin and Fun Fund Playground Toys

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin is shown trying to get on board a new whirl-a-round at Children's Park at Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School. The new pl...
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Lowell Hall, New U.W. Women's Residence

Date: 09 05 1961
Description: Kay Wilgus, a University of Wisconsin freshman student from Arcadia, California, standing in front of the newly opened Lowell Hall, a private women's resid...
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Sauk County Manhunt Searchers

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Three Jefferson County Sheriff Department officers and a search volunteer posing with two bloodhounds that took part in a manhunt for a suspect from an inc...
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Two Boys in Soapbox Racer

Date: 08 26 1961
Description: Peter Schram, 10, sitting on a home-made race car while being pushed by Bruce Mills, 11. The boys built the racer from boards and wheels from an old coaste...
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Murder Suspect Jailed

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Captain Harry Wyatt, left, and Deputy Sheriff Mike Spencer bring prisoner Lawrence Nutley, of Chicago, to the Dane County jail in Madison. The prisoner was...
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Madison Dahlia Grower

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: H.I. Peterson, longtime dahlia fancier, examines some of the dahlias in his garden as he decides which ones to enter in the annual Dahlia and Flower Show s...

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