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Two Orangutans

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: Two orangutans clinging to one another inside an enclosure at the Vilas Zoo.
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Annual Scholarship Tea of the University League

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Two graduate students from Indonesia — right, Zanzawi Soejoeti of Java, and Jahja S. Lubis of Sumatra — will be among the musicians at the annual scholarsh...
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New West High School Swimming Pool

Date: 03 28 1961
Description: The new swimming pool at Madison West High School was recently filled with 125,000 gallons of water. In addition to use by the junior and senior high physi...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: Long lines of voters gather at Midvale School for the spring 1961 election. Poll workers are sitting at two tables to register the voters.
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Edgewood High School Baseball Clinic

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: Phils' Scout Bill Freese demonstrates techniques at Edgewood High School baseball clinic.
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Irish Operetta at Madison Central High School

Date: 03 07 1961
Description: Jake Standifird (right, wearing a skirt) and Dawn Huett performing in a scene involving a switch of the sexes in the operetta "Bits of Blarney" which will ...
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Annual Mad Hat Luncheon

Date: 03 22 1961
Description: Mrs. Edwin H. (Vivian) Tallard, 1133 Edgehill Drive, wearing an inverted waste basket decorated with artificial flowers, birds, bees and butterflies at the...
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Madison Mayoral Candidates Forum

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Madison mayoral candidate Ross Gordon speaking at a forum sponsored by the West Side Business Men's Association.
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Edgewood High School Baseball Clinic

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: Phils' Scouts Bill Freese (right) and Eddie Dancisak demonstrating techniques at an Edgewood High School baseball clinic.
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty" at Midvale School. A voter is shown studying a sample ballot at the 1961 spring election.
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Madison Mayoral Candidates Forum

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Madison mayoral candidate Robert E. Nuckles speaking at a forum sponsored by the West Side Business Men's Association.
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Madison Mayoral Candidates Forum

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Madison mayoral candidate Henry E. Reynolds speaking at a forum sponsored by the West Side Business Men's Association.
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Game of Marbles

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: Frank Genna has a knuckles-down marbles or mibs game with friends in his yard.
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Madison Mayoral Candidates Forum

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Madison mayoral candidate Lyle L. Peterson speaking at a forum sponsored by the West Side Business Men's Association.
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Madison Mayoral Candidates Forum

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Madison mayoral candidate Clarence G. Bylsma speaking at a forum sponsored by the West Side Business Men's Association.
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Blackhawk Country Club Women at Annual Mad Hat Luncheon

Date: 03 22 1961
Description: Mrs. Darwin (Marybelle) Waters of 3302 Nottingham Way won the "most original" prize for her hat decorated with crisp new dollar bills at the annual Mad Hat...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty" at the Fire Station. A voter is checking in before voting at the 19th Ward poll. He is at the head of a long line of vot...
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Henry Wallace Speaks at Wisconsin Center

Date: 03 28 1961
Description: Former Vice-President Henry Wallace giving a speech at the the Wisconsin Center at the special Benjamin Hibbard Memorial Lecture. In it, he calls price-wag...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty." A child is peering out from beneath the curtain of a voting booth as his parent votes.
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Blackhawk Country Club Women at Annual Mad Hat Luncheon

Date: 03 22 1961
Description: The "prettiest hat" at the Blackhawk Country Club Womens' Mad Hat event went to Mrs. Warren C. (Barbara) Bogel of 4518 Wakefield Street. She used fresh cab...

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