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Ed Gein Arriving at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests.
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Shell Gas Station

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: Service station attendant standing next to gas pump at the Shell Gas Station near the Shorewood Corners Shopping Center, 801 Shorewood Boulevard.
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Madison Exchange Club Collection for Salvation Army

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Exchange Club with one of five bathtubs they will have around Madison to collect money for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets for ...
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Madison Curling Club

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Two members of the Madison Curling Club during an intra-club competition. Gloved curlers, L.W. Ketchum (left) and Rollie Black (right), show a "sweeping" t...
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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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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Banquet chairman Gwendolyn Hinrichs and daughter, Scherie Lynn, discuss the program with program chairman, Sadie Munson, at the East Side Women's club banq...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View looking down at a line of men and women waiting to buy tickets to Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office located in the basement ...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Edward H. Vogt taking a bite out of his sandwich aboard his American Legion Voiture's "locomotive," number 738 for Fond du Lac County.
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str...
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Carson Gulley at His New Restaurant

Date: 09 12 1962
Description: Local celebrity chef, Carson Gulley, posing with the sign for his new restaurant and catering firm at 5522 University Avenue.
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Minetta Leonard

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Indoor portrait of Minetta Leonard, who will give an illustrated travel talk to the Christian Mothers and Altar Society at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in...
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Police Cadet Walks Beat with Veteran Patrolman

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: Madison recruit policeman Franklin Oswald (left) learns how to operate on the beat by walking with veteran patrolman Eugene Buchanan (right) on Post 33, th...
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Madison Drum & Bugle Corps Trip

Date: 08 22 1957
Description: Members of the Boy Scout Corps posing for a group portrait prior to leaving on a trip to Florida to compete in the VFW national competition. The Scouts are...
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Democratic Party State Convention

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: Mrs. Elaine Smith of Baraboo is pinning a Nash posterboard on the lapel of Paul Siciliano of Superior, during the Democratic Party State Convention at Hote...
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Democratic Party State Convention

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: An unidentified delegate in support of Philleo Nash taking a catnap during the Democratic Party State Convention at Hotel Loraine.
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Miss America Visits Madison

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, giving a speech at Madison's United Givers' Fund banquet during the Madison stop on her tour of the country.
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March of Dimes "Race of Dimes" on the Capitol Square

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin football players Dan Lanphear and Bill Hobbs prepare to push two polio victims in wheelchairs around the Capitol Square as part of ...
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: Teachers window shopping between sessions of the 66th Annual Southern Wisconsin Education Area convention. Left to right standing under the awning are Ele...

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