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Rennebohm's No. 5 at Schenk's Corners

Date: 1955
Description: The Rennebohm Drug Store #5, located at 2000 Atwood Avenue, Schenk's Corners from 1952-1961. It was previously located at 1951 Winnebago Street. This store...
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Ragatz Shoe Store

Date: 04 22 1953
Description: Exterior view of Ragatz Shoe Store, at 2033 Atwood Avenue.
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Kennedy Manor

Date: 05 27 1953
Description: Langdon Street facade of Kennedy Manor Apartments, 1 Langdon Street, on the corner of Langdon Street and Wisconsin Avenue.
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Workmen's Circle Labor Lyceum

Date: 07 17 1953
Description: Exterior view from across street of the Workmen's Circle Labor Lyceum, 41-43 North Mills Street.
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Mohawk Realty Co. House

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Exterior view of small Cape Cod-style house. Taken for Mohawk Realty Co. (location unknown).
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
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Carnival for Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 24 1954
Description: Roundy is surrounded by children who put on and participated in a neighborhood carnival fund raiser held at the Marv Wellentin home at 210 Breese Terrace. ...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison neighborhood street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal. One house on this paper route has a front yard enclos...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison residential street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal on their paper route.
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Row of two-story houses along the newspaper route in a Madison neighborhood, where the carriers throw their papers to the doorstep.
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Clothing Fashions for High School & College Coeds

Date: 08 1955
Description: Clothing outfits available at Madison stores being modeled by young women: Walking on a sidewalk, Margaret McDowell is wearing a suit of a avocado green tw...
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Decorated Fraternity House

Date: 10 1955
Description: A neo-classical styled fraternity house on Langdon Street. Fraternity brothers, waving, fill an upper balcony above four large pillars, from which a sign i...
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Opitz and Young Relator Advertising Copy

Date: 09 1955
Description: Advertisement image for a one-story house at 3022 Gregory Street with three bedrooms and a first-floor laundry selling for $17,500.
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Shirley Abrahamson

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: Attorney, Shirley Abrahamson, walking her Irish Setters, Brisco and Betsy-B near her Fish Hatchery Road home. She is a member of the law firm of LaFollette...
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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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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Mathew Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, checks-in with his Wisconsin State Journal district manager Clint Vondoll, who is sitting ...
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Explosion Kills Couple

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Explosion and fire in the 200 block of North Bassett Street caused the deaths of William and Gladys McGrath and destruction of five buildings. Firemen are ...
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Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Laurie Stein, 5 year old daughter of photographer Edwin Stein, playing in a double hammock with her friend Sara.
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Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Jimmie Stein, two year old son of photographer Edwin Stein, lying in a hammock.
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Halloween Fund Drive to Help UNICEF

Date: 10 21 1958
Description: Madison children call on their neighbors and friends to contribute funds for the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF). Shown collecting in a neighbor...

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