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Presenting Wreath on Armistice Day

Date: 11 11 1952
Description: Nena Aylward, left, of the Women's Relief Corps, is placing a wreath on the cenotaph in Armistice Day ceremonies in Capitol Park. Assisting is Clarence R. ...
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Armistice Day Tribute

Date: 11 11 1952
Description: Representatives of veterans' and patriotic groups, holding flags and paying tribute to the city's war dead by laying wreaths around a cenotaph at the Stat...
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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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University of Wisconsin ROTC Review

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin ROTC cadets pass in review before the Military Ball Queen, Mary Schneiders, San Diego, California, her court, and ROTC officers...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon...
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Army Day Parade

Date: 04 06 1949
Description: Wisconsin ROTC cadets passing in review in front of the Memorial Union at the start of the Army Day parade. The Wisconsin State Historical Society is on th...
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Wisconsin ROTC Cadet Receiving Award

Date: 04 06 1949
Description: Lieut. Col. Wayne O. Hauck, executive officer of the University of Wisconsin military department, left, presenting Cadet Col. William K. Chipman with an aw...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: A three day annual inspection of the University of Wisconsin Reserved Officers Training Corps cadets was climaxed by a parade of 2,500 cadets and the prese...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Reserve Officers Training Corps parade is witnessed by many regular army and navy officers with their wives and other members of th...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Cadet William C. Bowden, also of Madison, won the Army Transportation Corps Award as the outstanding senior in the Transportation Corps. He is shown being ...
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Armistice Day Rites

Date: 10 11 1949
Description: A crowd gathers to participate in a service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. At center left, ...
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Armistice Day Rites

Date: 11 11 1949
Description: A community service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street's entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Flag bearers and a crowd of people sur...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: Spectators are shown standing on the steps at the Capitol Square looking down State street at approaching U.W. ROTC marching units. The view includes the e...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral ...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: Elevated view of the Memorial Day Parade on South Carroll Street from the roof of the Park Hotel. The parade featured two marching groups: a military band...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: Elevated view of Madison's Naval ROTC members rounding the corner at South Carroll and West Main Street during the Memorial Day parade on the Capitol Squar...
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Madison Marines Sendoff

Date: 09 06 1950
Description: A crowd gathers to watch the Madison marine reserve unit marching down West Washington Avenue to board a train for duty in Korea.
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Armistice Day Ceremony at Capitol Square

Date: 11 11 1950
Description: Red Arrow division national guardsmen observe wreath bearers at the State Street corner of the Capitol Square.

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