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Winner of Christmas Home Decorating Contest

Date: 12 22 1956
Description: Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, receiving a clock radio as a prize in the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest from Lucien G. Schlimgen, Jr., president o...
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Christmas House Decoration Winner

Date: 12 22 1956
Description: Home of Norman and Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, winner of the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest.
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Soldier at Christmas in Hospital

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Staff Sergeant Johnnie White celebrating Christmas at Truax Field hospital.
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Students Home for the Holidays

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Three Madison girls, students at Kemper Hall in Kenosha, visiting in Madison during their Christmas holiday. Left to right are: Margot Schmidt, daughter of...
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Boy Scouts Honor Lincoln

Date: 02 11 1947
Description: Madison Boy Scouts and their leader pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue on Bascom Hill. Dick Feldt...
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Armistice Day Ceremonies

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Armistice Day ceremony with Mrs. Ella M. Bresee, representing the Grand Army of the Republic and the Daughters of 1812, shown placing a wreath at the cenot...
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Armistice Day Ceremony

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cen...
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Christmas Shopping

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Natalie Schwartz, 137 Talmadge Street, admiring a Christmas tree outdoors.
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Young Adult Club Subscription Dance

Date: 12 26 1947
Description: From the left: Michael Dean, Jo Ann Donovan, Cameron Adams, and Mary Weston, at the subscription dance at the Madison club held for the teenage children of...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Cadets at French Friendship Day Ceremony

Date: 02 13 1949
Description: The group of University of Wisconsin ROTC Cadets clasped hands to signify the presentation and acceptance of the French gifts to the state of Wisconsin. A ...
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Abraham Lincoln Recognition

Date: 02 10 1950
Description: Rev. O.B. Ransopher of Wisconsin Rapids, president of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, placed a wreath at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue in fro...
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Christmas Seal Display

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: A group of girl scouts from Troop 99 of Bashford Methodist Church singing Christmas carols at a Christmas holiday display at a Madison law firm featuring t...
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St. Mary's Hospital Nativity Scene

Date: 12 09 1950
Description: Nativity figurines are placed in a naturally formed snow cave outside a courtyard window of the St. Mary's Hospital kitchen.
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Children and Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 19 1950
Description: Jeffery, age 10, Leslie, 6, and Kurt, 3, children of Dr. Leslie and Jean Antonius, hold wrapped Christmas gifts while standing in front of their home at 32...
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Milwaukee Curling Club

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Group portrait of members of the Hugh Sinclair Rink from Milwaukee who won the fourth event finals of the seventh annual Midwest Curling Bonspiel with thei...
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Maple Bluff Christmas Display

Date: 12 16 1951
Description: Four young residents of Maple Bluff stand in front of the giant 32-foot-high Christmas display of a manger scene at the intersection of Charing Cross Road ...
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: As part of the "doing for others" theme for the Christmas season, the children of Donald and Betty Stroud feed bread to the birds. The children include, fr...
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National Sales Executives of Madison Party

Date: 01 12 1957
Description: Chairmen of the party Warren and Louise Kreunen admire a full sized snowman decoration at the National Sales Executives of Madison party.
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New St. James Grade School Opens

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: The American flag is raised on the flagpole in front of the new St.James Catholic grade school on St. James Court. More than 300 pupils stand for the flag ...
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...

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