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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56...
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Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly at Airport

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding an airliner at Madison Municipal Airport. On the ...
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Lee B. Bailey

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Lee B. Bailey, retired farmer, standing on steps near airplane, getting ready to take his first airplane ride a few days before his 75th birthday.
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Heritage Christmas Stockings

Date: 07 02 1953
Description: Mrs. Fred T. Cruse displays seven examples of her heavily decorated handmade velvet Christmas stockings, which she sells nation-wide and which retail for $...
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Donald Rock Wayside Park Dedication

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Vona Donald poses next to a newly dedicated plague. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park located along Highway 92 between Mt. Horeb and Mt. V...
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Golden Agers

Date: 01 08 1957
Description: Mollie Sweet, Cecile Schein, Fannie Borsuk and Esther Sweet were the workers for the monthly afternoon party put on by the Council of Jewish Women at the C...
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Toys Repaired No Charge by Grandpa

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: C. Glenn Goodsell is surrounded by children in front of a cart which reads "Toys Repaired No Charge By Grand-Pa". The sign on the wheel of the cart reads: ...
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Waiting for the Bus

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Description: An elderly woman sitting on a bench while waiting for a bus in a bus shelter. Behind her is a window which looks down the street.
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Edward H. Vogt taking a bite out of his sandwich aboard his American Legion Voiture's "locomotive," number 738 for Fond du Lac County.
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens...
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VA Yule Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Belle Richman, Rose Dolinky, and Florence Krash (wife of Rabbi Hyman Krash) are operating a bingo game at a holiday party for patients at the Veterans Hos...
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Minetta Leonard

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Indoor portrait of Minetta Leonard, who will give an illustrated travel talk to the Christian Mothers and Altar Society at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in...
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Half Century Club of U.W. Madison

Date: 06 06 1959
Description: The University of Wisconsin class of 1909 poses for its golden anniversary reunion picture as photographer William Black prepares to snap the shutter of a ...
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Half Century Club of U.W. Madison

Date: 06 05 1959
Description: The three officers of the UW class of 1909 pose with Sam Ogle, Milwaukee, right, president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association. They are, left to right: Mr...

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