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| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Captain Harry Dyer, age 80, admiring his model log raft and steam boat in his basement workshop. For 20 years he was a raft boat mate. He left the river in... |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Edward S. Cooper, 1811 Jefferson Street, holding playing cards. Mr. Cooper, who is 90 years old, enjoys good health, gardening and playing skat with his fr... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o... |
| Date: | 03 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Isora Wilson, 432 N. Murray Street, has a collection of turnip dolls that she has made to resemble Charles Dickens' characters Pickwick and Scrooge. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Pictured at the 60th anniversary luncheon of the Attic Angel Association, sponsors of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, are, from left to right: Mrs. Joh... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Edward J. Rickers with UW nightwatchman "Gramps," on a Lake Mendota outing. They are seated on the grass together with a picnic lunch and a campfire. There... |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Slightam and her grandsons, Pierre, left, and Warren Slightam, right. Pierre, 15, came in first at the recent Madison Soap Box Derby and will ... |
| Date: | 06 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Carl Runge (right), 91, U.W. Madison 1886 alumni and a former Milwaukee judge, is shown receiving a gold top cane to honor his being the oldest alumnus in ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Shown are U.W. football alumni Eddie Cachems and A.F. "Norsky" Larson who played together in the backfield in 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901. In their final yea... |
| Date: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marshall M. Parkinson, 317 Langdon Street, a 1884 U.W. graduate and a emblem (letter) wearer in baseball. He attended Wisconsin before there wa... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A Ford Mustang carrying four elderly men and one woman driving past a crowd in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. A sign on the passenger side of ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Ford Mustang carrying four elderly men and one woman driving down a street in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. An American fl... |
| Date: | 11 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Three charter members of the Turner auxiliary of Madison are shown at the 56th anniversary luncheon. They are Marguerite Drews, Alma Speckner, current pres... |
| Date: | 01 18 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of retired people play a game of canasta at the Social Afternoon Klub which is held weekly at the Madison Community Center. The Social Afternoon Kl... |
| Date: | 10 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Albert Becker and Carl Van Skike, hunting partners for 32 years, posing in hunting clothes with shot guns while holding three geese they bagged while hunti... |
| Date: | 11 02 1951 |
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| Description: | The five surviving members of the 1901 University of Wisconsin football team gather for their 50th annual reunion. Left to right: Merritt Murphy, Rockford,... |
| Date: | 01 19 1952 |
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| Description: | H.T. Ferguson, veteran Madison curler, squatting with his hand on the curling stone handle, about to propel it. He is wearing a tam on his head. The club b... |
| Date: | 02 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Minch, Belleville, who at 82 years of age is one of Madison's oldest active bowlers, pictured here at the Playdium Alleys in Madison. Minc... |
| Date: | 06 20 1952 |
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| Description: | John Berge (left), executive secretary of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, presents the gold headed cane to Ralph E. Blount of Wilmette, Illinois, who had... |
| Date: | 07 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Alba Knight sitting on the porch of his residence at 20 South Broom Street. He is about to turn one-hundred years old. He came to Wisconsin from Maine when... |
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