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Milroc's Fine Food

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Storefront entrance and display windows at night of storefront of Milroc's, located at 450 State Street. The neon sign reads: "Milroc's Adventure in Fine F...
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Sorority Ban Protest

Date: 10 04 1962
Description: A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest of the decision to ban the Delta Gamma ...
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Sorority Ban Protest

Date: 10 04 1962
Description: A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest the decision to ban the Delta Gamma sor...
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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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Suburban Profiles of Government Leaders

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Portrait of Professor Norman P. Neal, Village President of Shorewood Hills, holding a tobacco pipe.
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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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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad, daughter of the Orlow Notstad farm family, is standing in front of the Rockdale School where she will be a first-grader the day after Labo...
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Fraternity Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of men on Langdon Street either participating in Fraternity Rush or watching women participate in Sorority Rush.
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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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Union Theater Windows Reflections

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: Reflections in the curved windows of the theater box office cause distortions as patrons wait in line for the office to open. The people are silhouetted ag...
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Children enjoy riding bikes at the U.W. Eagle Heights apartments. Barbara Bessae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bessae, is shown giving a ride to Tommy Bi...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity members and friends ride the 33-ton used Sherman tank that the fraternity purchased from the Army at Camp McCoy, from the Milwauk...
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Edgewood High School Honor Students

Date: 05 28 1958
Description: Ten scholarship winners in their caps and gowns, honored at a ceremony for Edgewood senior high honor students are, left to right: Thomas Wildeman, Abigail...
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New Headquarters of the Forest Products Research Society at 1 Walnut Street

Date: 06 12 1958
Description: The new headquarters of the Forest Products Research Society located at 1 Walnut Street.
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July Fourth Program for Children

Date: 07 03 1958
Description: A crowd of children holding small flags are assembled in front of Regina Hall at Edgewood College to celebrate the 4th of July.
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University Campus Shoreline Vista

Date: 07 11 1958
Description: A view of Lake Mendota from the end of Park street. F.O. Leiser, general chairman of the class of 1902 has raised the issue of maintaining the lakeshore be...
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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 10 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin students meeting others at the new fountain on the library mall on campus. The University Club building is in the background.
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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 10 1958
Description: A group of U.W freshmen walking on campus. [The newspaper article identifies the street as Langdon Street, but this is Linden Drive with the Horticulture b...
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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 11 1958
Description: A long line of U.W freshmen students on the Library Mall waiting to enter the Memorial Library to register for the fall semester. The Wisconsin Historical ...

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