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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Lloyd Hansen is acting as a sal...
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Forest Milk Company Truck

Date: 01 22 1954
Description: Forest Milk Company truck. Image taken for M&M Insurance of Chicago.
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Town and Country Fine Furniture

Date: 02 10 1954
Description: Six-piece, living-room furniture set, including a sofa and matching chair, three limed-oak occasional tables, two modern table lamps with 3-way switches, o...
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Borden Dairy Float with Beulah

Date: 05 12 1954
Description: Station wagon pulling a float for Borden's Dairy on a trailer at the Governor's luncheon for the Dairy Foods Festival held at the Edgewater Hotel. The floa...
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Opitz and Young Relator Advertising Copy

Date: 09 1955
Description: Advertisement image for a one-story house at 3022 Gregory Street with three bedrooms and a first-floor laundry selling for $17,500.
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Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Aids Neighborhood Center

Date: 06 08 1957
Description: Marie Lipka, a director of the Atwood Community House, receives a check from the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce. Looking on, while doing yard work and ...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin bacteriology department examines the root system of French pussywillows she raised to sell at the Madiso...
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New Addition to an East Wilson Street Office Building

Date: 06 07 1958
Description: An addition to the General Casualty company building at 117 East Wilson street nearing completion. It will house the offices of the Fire Association Group ...
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Fitchburg Traffic on Highway 14

Date: 08 30 1958
Description: Telephoto shot of Labor Day Sunday traffic in Fitchburg on a two lane highway 14 near Clayton Road. Nineteen cars are north bound. Four cars are south bou...
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We Saw You . . . at Bankers Open House

Date: 11 28 1958
Description: The Wisconsin Bankers Association holds an open house at their new offices in the Wisconsin Power and Light Company building, 122 W. Washington Avenue. Sho...
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Automobile Retrieved from Midvale Boulevard Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue.
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Hanks Garden Walk

Date: 08 03 1960
Description: Dr. Jane Hanks, Bennington, Vt. and Sybil Hanks are shown standing in the garden at the Lucien M. and Mary Esther "Mollie" Vilas Hanks house at 525 Wiscons...
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Hanks Garden Walk

Date: 08 03 1960
Description: A garden path leading under two trellises in the Hanks Garden at the Lucien M. and Mary Esther "Mollie" Vilas Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue at Langdon ...
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Hanks Garden Walk

Date: 08 03 1960
Description: Nicholas Hanks, family grandson, in the garden at the residence of Lucien M. and Mary Esther "Mollie" Vilas Hanks, 525 Wisconsin Avenue at Langdon Street ...
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We Saw You . . . at West Side Garden Club Show

Date: 11 17 1960
Description: The West Side Garden Club holds its annual "Holiday House" show. Proceeds from the show are used for garden therapy, civic projects, conservation, and scho...
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Provident Savings and Loan New Building

Date: 11 28 1960
Description: Provident Savings and Loan employees work area in the company's new building at 126 South Hamilton Street.
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Madison Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps Members Sell Christmas Trees

Date: 12 14 1960
Description: Madison Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps representatives receive a shipment of Christmas trees to sell at their two tree lots at the 1200 block of East Washi...

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