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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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Anti-Vietnam Rally at Memorial Union

Date: 10 18 1963
Description: Large group of students gathered on the steps of the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. Many carry signs urging the U.S. military to leave Vietnam. La...
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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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U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Bill Heim inspects a water bottle before heading out on the lake to take water samples at various depths as Richard Pierce, an electrical engineer doing re...
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Removal of Pedestrian Safety Islands on University Avenue

Date: 06 08 1957
Description: Pedestrian safety islands at University Avenue and Brooks Street were raised concrete islands (referred to as "meat-blocks") and are being removed to possi...
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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Checking her luggage for her trip next week to Quebec is Catherine du Vair. She will do graduate work at Laval University. She is a 1956 graduate of Marque...
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Sorority Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of college women wearing name tags while standing on Langdon Street, waiting their turns to tour all the sorority houses hosting informal teas. It wa...
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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...
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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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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity purchased a used 33-ton Sherman tank from Camp McCoy for use at a spring fraternity "tank party". The fraternity's Dixieland orch...
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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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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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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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City of Madison Merit Award Presentation

Date: 08 28 1958
Description: Madison traffic engineer John H. Bunch, left, displays his check as a merit award for suggesting the installation of an automatic warning for tall trucks a...
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Family Visits from New Milford, Connecticut

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: The Charles Iltis family visiting his parents, Professor and Mrs. Leon L. Iltis at their Nakoma road home.
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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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Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: Decoration for the UW-Madison homecoming at the Chi Omega sorority on Langdon street.
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Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin cheerleaders riding in a convertible during the UW-Madison homecoming parade.
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Madison Residents Look Forward to 1959

Date: 12 09 1958
Description: Karen Sherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orven B. Sherry, 4026 Euclid Avenue, and Jane Gillette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gillette, 913 Harrison St...

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