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Spraying in Maple Bluff for Dutch Elm Disease

Date: 11 01 1958
Description: All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau...
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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...
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City Leaf Vacuum Cleaner

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz...
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Dane County Sheriff Department Dog Training

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: An unidentified Dane County Sheriff Department employee training a police dog. The man and the dog are in a field, and a storage tank is near buildings in ...
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West German Farmers Visit Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: A group of 75 West German farmers visit Madison on a week-log tour of mechanized farming operations in the Midwest. The group stops at the Bowman Farm Dair...
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Vitense Golfland

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: Golfers playing the miniature golf course at George Vitense's Golfland; a combination of a miniature course, a par-three 18-hole layout, a driving range an...
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Madison Street Department Crew Cleaning Leaves from Gutter

Date: 10 21 1960
Description: A Madison street department crew cleans leaves from the gutter along Mandan Crescent using a leaf vacuum machine as neighborhood children watch. Workers ar...
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon enjoys a cup of coffee during a presidential campaign stop at the Madison Municipal airport.
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: The traffic jam of automobiles and pedestrians trying to get to the presidential campaign rally for the-Vice President Nixon at the Madison Municipal airpo...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New third grade teacher in Sun Prairie, Diane Schmitt, enjoys an apple in her classroom.
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Slayton Farmhouse

Date: 01 02 1962
Description: Winter view from the road towards the farmhouse and outbuildings of Charles and Victoria Slayton, parents of astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton. The farmstead...
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Country Church

Date: 02 1979
Description: A cow looks for food in a snowy field in front of a church. The field had been planted with corn.

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