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| Date: | 12 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Wedding party at the altar of Sacred Hearts Catholic Church. Party includes bride Marian Thekla Hebl, groom James Daniel Tormey, Priest George Haeusler, br... |
| Date: | 10 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the dignitaries who participated in Sun Prairie's dual celebration of Homecoming and the official dedication of Ashley Field, the new hig... |
| Date: | 12 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the principal participants at a banquet honoring Sun Prairie's undefeated football team, sponsored by the Lions Club. Seated, left to rig... |
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| Description: | A large tombstone marking the grave of Tabitha Burgoyne Bird, the daughter of Major Burgoyne, a surgeon in the English army. |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Sue Carolyn Renk examines a piece of crystal glassware as her mother, Mrs. Wilbur Renk looks on. She is preparing for her wedding and her graduation. |
| Date: | 08 19 1961 |
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| Description: | John Lynch (10) of Sun Prairie is shown biting into an ear of corn at the annual corn festival. |
| Date: | 08 19 1961 |
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| Description: | Mary Heisler of Sun Prairie carefully eats an ear of corn at the annual corn festival. |
| Date: | 08 19 1961 |
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| Description: | Billy Stevenson (9) of Madison is shown finishing his sixth ear of corn at the Sun Prairie corn festival. |
| Date: | 08 19 1961 |
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| Description: | An unnamed rural DeForest area man is shown eating an ear of corn at the Sun Prairie Corn Festival. |
| Date: | 09 28 1967 |
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| Description: | The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti... |
| Date: | 12 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Co-chairmen for the Sun Prairie campaign confer at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They are Mrs. John McGonigle an... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Paul Gottschalk and Alice Brussow (wife of William Brussow) are sitting at the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic, sharing reminiscences. A person (face ou... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Early settler Anton Thomas, sitting on the right on the wooden bumper of an automobile, is holding his cane and smoking a pipe, and is talking with Robert ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | John Philpot (standing with cane) asking Herman Woerpel if he'd put on a little weight! Looking on is Edward Duschek, sitting in the driver's seat of a car... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy. |
| Date: | 06 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of guests greeting the bride, Susan Renk, and groom, Richard Tomlin, at the wedding reception on the lawn of the Renk farm in rural Sun Prair... |
| Date: | 06 28 1958 |
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| Description: | As the bride, Susan Renk, is walking up the steps of the Sacred Hearts Catholic Church in Sun Prairie, her father, Wilbur Renk, is assisting by holding up ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard Tomlin and Susan Renk standing with members of their wedding party before the Rev. Herbert A. Waldkirch who officiated at the wedding ceremony in S... |
| Date: | 05 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Richard Tomlin and Susan Renk during the reception on the Renk farm after their wedding at Sacred Hearts Catholic Church in Sun Prairie. |
| Date: | 07 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Switch-throwing ceremony for the new electric sub-station in Sun Prairie on Market Street. Five men are standing in front of the transformer and other equi... |
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