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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy.
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboy, Fred Ciebell (from Edgerton) waving goodbye from a window to his parents, Wes and Elaine Ciebell, and brother. Fred is in...
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboy John Pertzborn gives his mother, Margaret Pertzborn, a goodbye hug before boarding the train for a week in the nation's cap...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens...
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We Saw You . . . as Catholic Schools Opened

Date: 09 1955
Description: Departing St. Bernard's Catholic School located at 2450 Atwood Avenue, after a morning class session are: on the left, Mrs. Ray Kowalsky (of 106 Cumberland...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: A mother and her four children enact a mental health situation revolving around stress in motherhood, raising a family, and sharing living space. The capti...
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George Stephan Family Spends a Spring Day at Tenney Park

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Law student George Stephan, 403 N. Murray Street, studies at Tenney Park while his wife, infant son, and mother-in-law, Mrs. Hofmeister, enjoy the sunshine...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Edith and Lawrence Anderson have two foster children who are living with their family temporarily. Pictured are the Lawrence family with their two foster c...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Brothers Malcolm, Mathew and Sidney Bourne discussing their finances as newspaper delivery boys with their mother, Mrs. Bailey Bourne, at their home on Lat...
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Jo Ann Ulvestad Returns Home After Three-Month Polio Treatment

Date: 11 26 1957
Description: The Orris Ulvestad family members, 4309 Drexel Avenue, welcome home Jo Ann after she spent three months in a respiratory center at the University of Michig...
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First Baby of the Year

Date: 01 01 1958
Description: Newborn baby boy with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dohm. He was born at 12:07 a.m., the first baby born in Madison in 1958.
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Madison Family Home from England for a Visit

Date: 03 27 1958
Description: Mrs. Mary Ellen Tank (wife of Martin Tank), with her children Jeffrey, (7) and Holly, (9). Martin Tank has been economic counselor and deputy director of t...
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Daughter Ann helping her mother setting the table for a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Labor Woman's Auxiliary Officers

Date: 08 27 1958
Description: Eleanor McEvilly, president of the auxiliary to the Gas Workers' union, Local 20620. Her husband, Stanley McEvilly, is employed at Madison Gas and Electric...
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary C. Metz escorts her mother, Mary B. Cowdin, to their automobile.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Mrs. Martha O'Malley with Son David O'Malley

Date: 01 02 1959
Description: Mrs. Helen O'Malley (83), Waunakee, discusses attending the Governor's Inaugural Ball at the State Capitol with her son, David. Mrs. O'Malley, a dedicated ...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Meredeth Niemczyk checks the part in the hair of her 11-year-old son, Tommy, before leaving for her school crossing guard job at the corner of Jenifer and ...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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YMCA Mothers' Club

Date: 04 17 1959
Description: Elizabeth Luetke is shown with two of her sons, Art and Bill, who are active in the YMCA. She is a committee member of the newly organized YMCA Mothers' cl...

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