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Scenes at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: A family picnic at Badger Park includes the Mulcahy, Solberg, O'Neil and Foley families. All of the families are from Shullsburg. One mother is placing a l...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Eight Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys around a picnic table enjoying root beer and apples in the shade of a grove. They are (left to right): Ri...
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Women's Western Open

Date: 06 23 1955
Description: The Maple Bluff Country Club clubhouse with a crowd watching the 26th Annual Women's Western Open.
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council.
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Guests of Russell W. Fowler

Date: 08 1955
Description: Relatives visiting at the home of Professor Russell Fowler and his wife, Fern. Sitting in the backyard, they are (left to right): Mrs. R.C. Gannon of Roche...
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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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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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Hilldale Shopping Center Construction

Date: 04 03 1962
Description: View looking south from the Shorewood bluff of the Hilldale Shopping Center under construction. Apartments and houses in the Hill Farms neighborhood are in...
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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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Visiting Lutheran Pastors from Europe

Date: 1955
Description: A delegation of Lutheran pastors from Europe at Bethel Lutheran Church during their tour of America. They are (left to right): Rev. Stanley Klyve, Bethel C...
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
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We Saw You . . . at Water Follies

Date: 08 1955
Description: Water comedian, Eddie Rose, of the Sam Snyder's Water Follies performing his routine jumping off a high-level diving board during a show at Breese Stevens ...
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: Women spectators watch as a field of 20 professionals and 50 top amateurs began a 72-hole competition in the 26th Annual Women's Western Open golf champion...
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: A group of men and women watching the golf match at the 26th Annual Women's Western Open golf championship at the Maple Bluff Country Club. A few people ar...
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Two Small Cars Double Up in One Metered Parking Space

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Two drivers are flipping a coin to determine who feeds the meter with their two small cars squeezed into one parking stall on North Park Street by Bascom H...
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Excavation Site for State Office Building Wing

Date: 04 08 1957
Description: Elevated view from the top of central section of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street, showing earth moving equipment at the excavation site f...
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Jerry Ball Waxing His Car at Tenney Park

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: Jerry Ball of Portage waxes his car at Tenney Park during his break from work. Lake Mendota is in the background.

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