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Senior Service Girl Scouts

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t...
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Capitol Square

Date: 1933
Description: Two police officers, one on a motorcycle with sidecar on the corner of Mifflin and Carroll Street, on the Capitol Square. A large Santa Claus cutout is lo...
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Lowell School Cub Scout Christmas Party

Date: 12 19 1952
Description: Lowell School Cub Scouts at a combined Christmas party and "Webelos" ceremony. Seated are boys James Kernan, Richard Schnurbusch, Ronald Wornson, Donald No...
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Nurse's Aid and Infant by Christmas Tree

Date: 11 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Margaret Horstmeier, nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, shows a Christmas tree ornament to infant John Monegar.
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WIBA Christmas Mail

Date: 12 17 1947
Description: Mailman delivering Christmas letters and packages to a man at NBC - WIBA radio station.
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Cub Scouts at Christmas Tree

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Ten cub scouts from Cub Pack 319 placing gifts for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at Marquette School. Standing, left to right, are J...
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Cub Scouts Donating Toys to Empty Stocking Fund

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: Cub Scouts from Pack 304 place toys for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. The toys will go to the Wiscons...
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Cub Scouts Pack Donated Toys to Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 07 1951
Description: Members of Cub Scout Pack #304, sponsored by St. Mark's Lutheran Church, place toys under their Christmas tree that will be donated to the Empty Stocking C...
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Lowell School Cub Scouts With Christmas Toys

Date: 12 15 1951
Description: Four members of the Lowell School cub scout pack are shown with toys they have collected and repaired for the Wisconsin State Journal's Empty Stocki...
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Christmas Tree and Gifts for Childen at Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 12 23 1952
Description: Over 2,000 children at two state institutions will receive gifts donated by state employees which are displayed under the Christmas tree in the State Capit...
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Gifts for Mendota State Hospital Patients

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Three women pack Christmas gifts as part of a project in which members of 30 Dane County organizations "adopt" a patient at Mendota State Hospital. Partici...
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Gifts for Mendota State Hospital Patients

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Elizabeth Kurtenacker, left, and Red Cross Gray Lady Ruth Hicks are next to a table with a pile of wrapped gifts. The women were taking part in a project i...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Martha Nelson (right) of Oxford looks on as Mary Anderson examines a toy nurse's kit she received from Santa Claus.
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Madison Firefighters Local 311 Hosts Christmas Party

Date: 12 12 1963
Description: Madison Firefighters Local 311 hosting a Christmas Party in the children's ward of St. Mary's Hospital complete with a visit from Santa Claus. Robert Hoxie...
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Madison Junior Woman's Club Children's Party

Date: 12 08 1964
Description: Kelly Casey and Michael Meuer at a Christmas party given by the Madison Junior Woman's Club for their children.
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Madison Junior Woman's Club Children's Party

Date: 12 08 1964
Description: Rickey Dries is highly amused during the Christmas party given by the Madison Junior Woman's Club for their children.
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Fire in the Wisconsin Building

Date: 01 13 1914
Description: Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o...
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X-mas Tree at the Dane County Jail

Date: 12 20 1960
Description: Deputies decorated a Christmas tree in the Dane County jail chapel and jail matron Anne Frazier played the chapel organ for prisoners meditating in the cha...

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