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Zeta Beta Tau Christmas Formal

Date: 12 14 1935
Description: A group portrait of the Zeta Beta Tau Christmas formal, 216 Langdon Street, with two girls holding ZBT plaques with its crest.
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Bernhard Mautz's 50th Birthday

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Mautz Paint and Varnish Company salesman, Alfie Ladd (right) presents a bronze plaque inscribed with signatures of the firm's sales force to company presid...
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Dedication of Drinking Fountain

Date: 09 22 1949
Description: Dedication of a drinking fountain at Central High School as a memorial to Pfc. James Hammond, son of Howard and Regina Hammond, 114 North Bassett Street. H...
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Railroad Safety Award Presentation

Date: 03 22 1950
Description: Walter S. Alcumbrac, Madison superintendent of the Madison division of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, (right) receives a plaque for the bes...
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Edgewater Hotel Dedication

Date: 05 21 1950
Description: Edgewater Hotel dedicated to Madison contractor and civic leader John H. Findorff, builder of the hotel. Dedication is marked with a bronze plaque hanging...
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Display of Police Trophies

Date: 09 21 1950
Description: Plaques, trophies, and medals won by members of the Madison police department stand on display in a new trophy case constructed by patrolman Les Shore.
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Milwaukee Curling Club

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Group portrait of members of the Hugh Sinclair Rink from Milwaukee who won the fourth event finals of the seventh annual Midwest Curling Bonspiel with thei...
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Harold E. Frye, JCC Man of the Year

Date: 03 05 1952
Description: Harold E. Frye, vice-president and general manager of the Forbes-Meagher Music Company, is shown at center as he received the Outstanding Man of the Year a...
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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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Madison Curling Club Invitational Bonspiel

Date: 03 04 1956
Description: Madison Curling Club members during the Invitational Bonspiel at Lavern Harmon Rink. The Madison Curling Club received the Walter C. Rhodes Trophy for the ...
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University of Wisconsin Greenhouse

Date: 01 29 1958
Description: Three men are shown holding a large copy of the wording to be put on a bronze plaque to mark the ceremony of turning a 100-foot greenhouse over to the Univ...
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Maple Bluff Fire Department Honored

Date: 01 14 1960
Description: Madison Fire Chief Edward Page, center, presents a plaque from the International Fire Chiefs Association to Maple Bluff's volunteer fire department for ach...
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Theater Men and Plaque

Date: 05 02 1961
Description: Three men examining a plaque. The original caption states: "F.J. Williams, left, Portage theater owner and longtime Wisconsin showman, receives a plaque co...
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State Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Ceremony

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: A plaque dedicating a tree in memory of Joyce Kilmer is placed on the State Capital grounds at a special ceremony held by the State Disabled American Veter...
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Madison Assn. of Plumbing Contractors, Inc. Honor David Farmer and Richard Royston

Date: 03 23 1965
Description: The Madison Assn. of Plumbing Contractors, Inc., meeting at Welch's Embers Supper Club, present honorary memberships to David Farmer, 4409 Winnequah Road, ...
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Camp Randall Historic Marker

Date: 10 28 1961
Description: The dedication ceremony of the Camp Randall historical marker was part of the halftime entertainment of the Wisconsin versus Ohio State football game. Gove...
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Dedication of the New Wisconsin Center Building

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Unveiling ceremony for three plaques honoring the men who were instrumental in the Wisconsin Center project. At left University of Wisconsin president E.B....

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