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Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: A person is bicycling around Capitol Square in the rain.
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Ice Skater Trying Out New Skates

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Dave Halls is trying out new ice skates he received for Christmas at Tenney Park pond, which is used as a Madison outdoor rink in winter. With ankles wobbl...
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Blackhawk Ski Club Meet

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: View up hill towards Don West, of the host Blackhawk Ski Club, who has just left the jumping scaffold, competing in the Class C category. Spectators are al...
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Winter Scene

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Winter scene along the Yahara river near the East Johnson Street bridge at Thornton Avenue. Ice is coating the tree limbs, and steam is rising from the wat...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Emil Thomas taking his beagle, BeBe, on a leash with him to fish. Walking along the dirt shore of the pond at Tenney Park, the dog is pulling on the leash,...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Dale Jordan showing a fish, caught fishing with friends at Tenney Park.
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We Saw You . . . at Attic Angels' Meeting

Date: 04 28 1954
Description: Annual Attic Angel Association, spring luncheon meeting held at the Blackhawk Country Club. Shown are members of the board of directors (left to right): Mr...
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Golfer's Lift at Blackhawk Country Club

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Young man operating a lift for two golfers at the Blackhawk Country Club. Their golf bags are in the cart beside them.
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Maple Bluff Country Club Golf Lessons

Date: 07 09 1954
Description: Man squatting down pointing to a golf ball in a sandtrap at Maple Bluff Country Club, instructing a woman to how to hit it. There are several onlookers beh...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: City Clerk A.W. Barels (left), City Attorney Harold Hanson, and Alderman Norman Moll are shown singing at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's picnic.
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: View across water towards the U.W. Lifesaving Services rescue boat, "Isabel III," with Captain Harvey Black at the helm speeding to assist a distressed boa...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman George Reger and Mayor George Forster (right) loading up their plates at the outing. Mayor Foster is dishing up food that is sitting behind an ena...
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Trick Golf Shots

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Photograph of Brad Walrath to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of him holding an enlarged golf club in a sand trap at Maple Bluff...
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Trick Golf Shot

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Portrait of golfer, Jim Castle, to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of him lying on the ground next to an enlarged golf hole at M...
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YMCA Camp Water Fight

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: Youth having a water fight in Lake Mendota at a YMCA camp.
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Trick Golf Shots

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Portrait of Steve Plater, to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of him standing with his golf club at the Maple Bluff golf course w...
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Trick Golf Shots

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Portrait of golfers, Emerson Moran and Brad Walrath, to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of them at Maple Bluff Golf Course with ...
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YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: YMCA staff member Harold Haak (top, center) declares Bill Cunningham (left) safe at home. Other players are Robert Berhagen as catcher and Steve Walrath, w...

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