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Blackhawk Ski Club Meet

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: People watching Cato Vik, a Norwegian student at the University of Wisconsin, take Class A honors and set a new hill record of 157 feet in the ski jumping ...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Children lining the street for the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square.
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Budweiser Clydsdale Horses Appear in Madison

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: A girl petting the nose of one of the Budweiser Clydesdale horses off the Capitol Square. The horses were in Madison and viewed on University Avenue, State...
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Milwaukee Braves Season Opening Game

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler ready to throw out the first pitch of the 1955 season to Milwaukee Braves catcher Del Crandall. Pictured in the lower left...
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Veteran's Day Observance at State Capitol

Date: 11 11 1955
Description: Veteran's Day observance at the cenotaph at the State Street entrance to the State Capitol in Madison. Gold Star Mothers and other patriotic groups observe...
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Parents and children sitting on a blanket on a lawn and looking down over the swimming pool, which is enclosed by a chain-link fence at Badger Park.
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Jimmy Pink, Steven Lee and Stuart Lee (left to right), all from Darlington, enjoy the crowded swimming pool. They are wearing masks and flippers.
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Norman Schandt, a member of the Shullsburg team, batting against the Potosi team in a baseball game at Badger Park. A crowd of spectators outside the fence...
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Women's Western Open

Date: 06 23 1955
Description: The Maple Bluff Country Club clubhouse with a crowd watching the 26th Annual Women's Western Open.
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: Women spectators watch as a field of 20 professionals and 50 top amateurs began a 72-hole competition in the 26th Annual Women's Western Open golf champion...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Carl Wettengel, a board member of the rifle club, addressing a room full of parents and youth members inside the clubhouse about the history of the group. ...
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Easter Church-Goers

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: Hundreds of Easter church-goers crowd the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Gorham Street on Sunday morning.
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John F. Kennedy at U.W. Fieldhouse

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: Democratic Presidential candidate John Kennedy speaking from a podium before a large crowd at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fieldhouse.
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Madison Public Library Groundbreaking Ceremony

Date: 10 29 1963
Description: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi...
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Anti-Vietnam Rally at Memorial Union

Date: 10 18 1963
Description: Large group of students gathered on the steps of the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. Many carry signs urging the U.S. military to leave Vietnam. La...
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Freedom Riders Boarding a Bus

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large group of Freedom Riders carrying food and blankets and boarding three buses to leave Madison bound for Selma, Alabama to ...
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Freedom Rider Protestors

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Two Universtiy students wave a Confederate flag on the steps of the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in protest of the 114 Freedom Riders boarding bu...
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Parked Car Rolls Across Carroll Street

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: A parked Buick Super sitting in front of the Karsten's men's shoe store on Carroll Street on the Madison Capitol Square. It had rolled across the street an...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 18 1957
Description: Children with their parents are sitting on the curb and watching the Armed Forces Day parade on Madison's Capitol Square. Other spectators are standing beh...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 18 1957
Description: The Navy ROTC drill team executes a salute during the Armed Forces Day parade before Madison's Capitol building. There is an American flag hanging from the...

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