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Adults Playing Bingo

Date: 1948
Description: Young boy watching adults playing bingo.
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Buying Shotgun Shells

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: People lined up in front of Berg Sporting Goods Store, 2123 Atwood Avenue, to buy shotgun shells which were scarce due to World War II. Also shows Modern ...
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Boys' Basketball Team

Date: 02 08 1944
Description: Brooklyn boy's basketball undefeated championship team. Standing: Jack Chatsey, Bryant Wackman, Bob Ross, Bill Ames, Ray Bund, Coach John Ponylesanyi; knee...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
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Phil Wackman Reading Newspaper

Date: 02 08 1944
Description: Phil "Scoop" Wackman, Brooklyn village banker. He is reading a newspaper with a headline that reads: "Wisconsin Wins Double Overtime," which reminded him o...
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Hungarian Wheat Festival

Date: 08 09 1942
Description: Two couples in Hungarian costumes, one man holding a scythe (kasza), admiring a sheaf of wheat in a wheat field. The twig tied to the scythe in a triangle ...
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Barneveld Basketball Team

Date: 02 18 1944
Description: Barneveld High School boys basketball team.
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Spring Green Basketball Team

Date: 02 14 1944
Description: Group portrait of the Spring Green High School basketball team, with two coaches and a manager.
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West High School Basketball Team

Date: 02 17 1944
Description: Five Madison West High School basketball players with their coach.
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Cribbage Game

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Four men playing cribbage as part of the Madison Board of Education Recreation Program.
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Dykstra House Nursery School

Date: 03 08 1944
Description: Betty Frey, student at the University of Wisconsin, and two children, Geraldine Myers and Barrie Anderson, playing in a nursery school established on the t...
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People Playing Bridge

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: Man teaching bridge to four women as part of the Madison Board of Education Recreation Program.
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Man Jumping into Lake Mendota

Date: 07 1943
Description: Man, wearing military "work whites" from Madison Army Air Forces detachment, jumping into Lake Mendota as part of water training.
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West High School Track Relay Honor Court

Date: 03 30 1944
Description: Three West High School seniors who reigned over the annual high school track relays in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Left to right: Mari...
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U.S. Senator Joseph H. Ball and Governor Goodland

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: United States Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-Minn.), shaking hands with acting Governor Goodland at a luncheon for Republican Presidential candidate Harold E. S...
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Young Child with a Stuffed Rabbit

Date: 04 05 1944
Description: Whitney Mason Gould, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens Gould, 712 Rogers Street, with a stuffed rabbit illustrating traditional Easter gifts for children.
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Three Children with an Easter Basket

Date: 04 05 1944
Description: The Yaudes children, James (7 1/2), Jimmy, (3), and Tammy (7 months), children of J. Lloyd Yaudes, 2305 Rowley Avenue, with an Easter basket illustrating t...
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Women's Basketball Team

Date: 04 02 1944
Description: Women's basketball team, part of the Board of Education Recreational Department activities.
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Women's Volleyball Team

Date: 04 02 1944
Description: Women's volleyball team, part of the Board of Education Recreational Department activities.
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Rifle Club Member Aiming a Gun

Date: 04 03 1941
Description: Paul Haberman, member of the Madison Legion Rifle and Pistol Club, aiming a rifle. The Club is sponsoring the "Little Worlds Rifle and Pistol Championship ...

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