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Catching a Football

Date: 1953
Description: Football player catching a football, as the referee is officiating and defensive players are running up alongside the one handling the ball.
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U.W. Fencing Team

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: View from below of Jack Heiden and Bruce Backmann of the University of Wisconsin fencing team crossing foils in the time-honored salute at the beginning of...
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Close-up of carpenters Art Thorstad and George Clark working on the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe....
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Bobby Meath, University of Wisconsin Boxer

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Jim Bernd of New Richmond keeps Bobby Meath's shoulders loose as he heads for the ring. Meath is wearing a light-colored robe, head gear, and boxing gloves...
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Bobby Meath Boxing in the Ring

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Don Backus (of Washington State) winces as Bob Meath of the University of Wisconsin punches right from the start of the bout.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ...
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Ice Skaters at Vilas Park

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Ice skater falling on her bum at Vilas Park ice rink on Lake Wingra.
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Bart Starr, Fuzzy Thurston, Pat Richter, and Jim Bakken

Date: 01 30 1962
Description: Bart Starr, quarterback, sitting front left, and Fred "Fuzzy" Thurston, guard, standing on the right, of the Green Bay Packers visiting with Jim Bakken, pu...
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Kitchen Fire

Date: 05 03 1957
Description: A fire chief is surveying the damage from a kitchen fire at 906 East Mifflin Street in Madison, while the fire fighters are sweeping up with brooms.
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Military Pilot Preparing for Flight

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Air Guard Lt. Dan Torphy preparing for a training flight from Truax Field by putting on a Mae West life preserver over his flight suit. He is being helped ...
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Building West Tower of 1 West Wilson Street

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Steel construction workers are standing on exposed beams for the new constriction of the West Tower of the Wisconsin State Office Building at 1 West Wilson...
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Firemen Fighting Fire at Abandoned North Western Railway Ice House

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem (left) in surgical garb assisting a surgeon in an operating room. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, s...
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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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Patricia Ann Palmer (2) Caught in Truax Park Drainage Pipe

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the...
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International Skeeter Association Ice Boat Regatta

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Dave Roston (Madison) skippers "Flying Trump", a Skeeter ice boat (right) around a marker in the International Skeeter Association regatta on Lake Mendota....
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Dave Roston

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Dave Roston, ice-boat skipper, who won Saturday morning's race but finished eighth in the afternoon in the International Skeeter Association re...
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Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
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Urea used for Brain Surgery at University Hospital

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: A brain surgery operation is in progress at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. A urea and inert sugar solution developed at the University is used to lo...

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