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| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Propelled by good roads and lower property taxes, many Wisconsin towns became "commuter suburbs" to their larger neighbors during the 1950s and 1960s. Whi... |
| Date: | 05 09 1960 |
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| Description: | James R. Jacobson (left), secretary, and William R. Cress, president, receive the charter for the new Sun Prairie Rotary Club from Lee H. Barker, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 07 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Underwater photograph of a youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool. |
| Date: | 07 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Underwater photograph of several youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool. |
| Date: | 07 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Underwater photograph of a youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool. |
| 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: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | David Humphrey, 12, a trained baby sitter, is shown reading to Ann Marie Upham, 3; her brother, Tommy, 4 1/2; and Rusty Sherlock, 3 1/2 at the Upham home i... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Baby sitter Christine Steiner, 11, at left encouraging her three little "clients" to assist her in straightening up their playroom. Obediently responding ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Trained baby sitter Colleen Russell, 14, heating a bottle in the kitchen of Robert and JoAnn Kessenich. In the foreground is 8 month old Nancy. At right, ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Baby sitters who take the six one-hour lessons sponsored by the Sun Prairie Jaycettes learn the correct methods of artificial resuscitation. Kathy Brown, ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Trained baby sitter Dan Unmuth, 13, is shown straightening out the bedding of his lively charge, Danny Groh, 15 months. |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 14 who want to be baby sitters are sitting in class at the Bank of Sun Prairie during one of the six one-hour bab... |
| 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: | 11 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Third grade students gather around teacher Diane Schmitt's desk before school begins. Students are Jerry Tennant, Cathy Kvalheim, Vicky Seltzner, Suzanne N... |
| Date: | 11 15 1960 |
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| Description: | New third grade teacher Diane Schmitt meets with Sun Prairie principal Bernard M. Dunn. |
| Date: | 11 15 1960 |
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| Description: | New third grade teacher in Sun Prairie, Diane Schmitt, enjoys an apple in her classroom. |
| Date: | 11 15 1960 |
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| Description: | New third grade Sun Prairie teacher Diane Schnitt meets banker Tom Tubbs and mayor Joseph N. Hanley. |
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