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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers (left to right): Robert Clark, Fred Boyd, and Donald O'Leary, are loading outgoing parcels and packages at the United States Post Office on ...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Joan Fagan, general chairperson for the ball, is helped with her coat by Denny Cosgrove. She i...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Walking up the stairs to the Crystal Ballroom are Mary Ann Hand, who was in charge of freshman...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Tom Stephan holds a box containing a corsage for his dance date, Jean McFarland. Standing on a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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Christmas Display in Edgewater Hotel Lobby

Date: 12 22 1954
Description: Christmas display in the Edgewater Hotel Lobby. An automobile parked outdoors can be seen through the window on the left.
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Shining ornaments and sprigs of pine and fir were used by many of the feminine guests for their Christmas hats for the party. Helen Plater and Elizabeth Mo...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Elsa Johnson looks up at a hat topped with a large wheeled carriage worn by Betty Berst. Johnson was style show chairman for 1957. Berst was the Maple Bluf...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Mrs. George W. Heath, 1957 social chairman of the woman's organization at Maple Bluff Country Club, is wearing a hat decorated with a large Christmas tree ...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Eleanor Nerdrum, program chairman for the Maple Bluff women's group in 1956-57, is wearing a hat richly decorated with a variety of Christmas tree ornament...
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Rexall Christmas in June

Date: 06 04 1959
Description: A man in a pharmacist smock is examining a large toy as two other men are looking on. They are at the Hotel Loraine at a merchandise display for all mercha...

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