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First Snowfall at Sherman Terrace

Date: 11 26 1953
Description: Douglas Artley trying out a new snow shovel while sister Alice is looking on.
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d...
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Driver Education Training

Date: 08 1955
Description: West High School driver education instructor and industrial arts teacher Dalton Hedlund (of 114 Leon Street), is teaching Judy Davis, (left, of 2001 Van Hi...
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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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Painting Norbert Anderson's Home

Date: 08 16 1958
Description: Norbert Anderson's friends who pitched in to help paint his home at 1522 Jefferson Street. Checking out their painting job are, from left; Joe Frye; Lorin ...
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Painting Norbert Anderson's Home

Date: 08 16 1958
Description: Norbert Anderson friends who pitched in to help paint his home at 1522 Jefferson Street. View looking up at Roland Wiessinger, who holding a cigarette in o...
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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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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: Larry (9) and Howard (13) Schwartz work at building a snow slide in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street.
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree...
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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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