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McVicar Photo Service Window Display

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Homecoming window display at McVicar Photo Service, 723 University Avenue.
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Camp 20

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window.
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United Givers' Fund Volunteer

Date: 10 23 1956
Description: Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath...
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Manchester's Show Window

Date: 01 02 1946
Description: Manchester's show window titled "A Tribute to Madison" and featuring pages from the Saturday Evening Post article about Madison being a "miniature m...
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b...
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University of Wisconsin Panel for "Parade Magazine"

Date: 11 16 1949
Description: Six University of Wisconsin students and one professor sitting on a panel to record their aspirations for the second half of the twentieth century for "Par...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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U.W. Student Service Projects

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Harriet Kirchhoff, Delta Gamma Sorority member, reading to a blind student, Robert Langford, as part of a University of Wisconsin Student Service project. ...
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Halle Steensland at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street.
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Group Portrait

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton sitting on a chair behind an unidentified man, woman, and boy. A heavy drape with tassels, top left, frames the s...
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Family at Home

Date: 1905
Description: A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ...
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Mechanical Apprentice Award

Date: 11 09 1953
Description: F.R. Badeau (left), president of the Madison Mechanical Contractors Association, presents an award to Damon Bryant who was selected as the outstanding mech...
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West Side Optimist Club Contest Winners

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Group portrait of Jeffrey Hansen (left), Harold Joyce, and winner James R. Green, finalists in the oratorical contest sponsored by the West Side Optimist C...
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Attending the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists, are Alice Kearby, Milwaukee, left, a Theta Sigma Phi journalism ...
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Rotary's International Night

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: Attendees at the Rotary Club's International Night, shown left to right, include: Majid M. Al-Ansary, Prof. David Fellman, Sara Fellman, and C. Anne Cartwr...
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Rotary's International Night

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: Attendees at Rotary Club's International night include, from left to right: Tadele B. Kibrat, Mohamed Abdel Aziz el Dessuky, and Grace Frautschi.
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Phi Chi Theta Convention

Date: 07 14 1957
Description: Committee members in charge of Phi Chi Theta national convention arrangements are, from left to right: Vivian Nissley; Mrs. Norman Olson, Cottage Grove; Ga...
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YW Teen-Canteen

Date: 01 22 1959
Description: Activities at the Teen-Canteen at the YWCA, 122 State Street, are sponsored by the Junior High Y-Teen clubs in Madison. Reading the East High School paper ...
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Matrix Banquet of Theta Sigma Phi

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Jane J. Neuheisel, alumna adviser to Beta chapter of Theta Sigma Phi; Irene Masing, Stockholm, Sweden, a special student in journalism at the university an...
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Valley Forge George Washington Honor Medal

Date: 07 22 1959
Description: View of a ceremony awarding a Valley Forge George Washington honor medal from the Freedoms Foundation to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company for its effo...

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