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Public Service Commission Meeting

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing for an international ...
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Chatting at the Panhellenic Ball in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union are sorority housemothers. Seated are Mrs. Ruth Gauchat, Mrs. Nyla Lowell, Mrs. Ke...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) group rehearses for an internatio...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Shelly Felt playing a vinyl recording on a portable record player. A holder with records is standing next to the record player.
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Judy Carlson, Wisconsin High, acts as timekeeper for the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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Betsy

Date: 02 19 1954
Description: Portrait of Betsy (friend of Ed Stein?).
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Student John Wilkinson, Tomah High School, speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Dane County Board Meeting

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: Hermann Eisner (left) from the town of Berry is speaking as Dane County Board Chairman Robert Eisner of Madison Ward 17 rapping his gavel. The air is hazy ...
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Steve Coughlin, Wisconsin High School, using his hands to emphasize a point while debating in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the Universit...
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Dane County Board Meeting

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: The Dane County Board of 82 members is one of the largest in the nation. Left to right are: Darwin Bruns (De Forest), F.E. Madsen (Village of Oregon) and R...
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Dane County Board Meeting

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: Frank Gugel of Madison Ward 8 standing at his seat to speak as Ivor McBeath of Madison Ward 11 (hand on chin) and Orin McConnell from the Town of Pleasant ...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: A large group of University of Wisconsin students playing jacks, while sitting on the floor during a tournament at the Alpha Phi House. One female student...
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Dane County Board Meeting

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: Arthur Woerpel, head of the Service Department, takes a gloomy view of the board's proceedings.
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ...
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Louise Revell

Date: 03 11 1954
Description: Portrait of Louise Revell, daughter of Aldric and Stella Revell.
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American Optical Company

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Slightly elevated view of three women in the order department at the American Optical Company, located on 429 State Street. Two women are standing at a cou...
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American Optical Company

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Three company executives looking at lenses in an office at the American Optical Company located on 429 State Street. One of the men might be Mark Metz.
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American Optical Company

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elevated view of technicians working at the American Optical Company located on 429 State Street. Men are standing and sitting at several work stations to ...

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