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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. Jean Wirka is showing and explaining her first experience with parallel parking with gestures and turning her head. Her words: "I turned the wheel fa...
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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. Jean Wirka is gesturing to explain her first experience with parallel parking. Title on page is: "A Lady With a Car Can Park Too!"
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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. Jean Wirka is shown telling about her first experience with parallel parking of her car. She said: "I never thought I could parallel park."
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Alice and Richard Welch, 4410 Bouldeer Terrace, are welcomed home with their new baby girl, Andrea, by their three sons, Jon (7), Daniel (5) and Stephen (3...
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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. E.J. Wirka is shown hosing down her car in preparation for a spring washing.
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Maharajah Visits Madison

Date: 05 01 1959
Description: His Highness, the Maharajah of Mysore India, left, being greeted on arrival by Prof. A. Campbell Garnett, center, of the U.W. philosophy department. The pe...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: The Welch brothers welcome home their new baby sister, Andrea. Shown (L-R) are Stephan (3), Daniel (5), and Jon (7). Their parents are Richard and Alice We...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Mr. & Mrs. (Alice) Richard Welch, 4410 Boulder Terrace, leave St. Mary's Hospital with their new baby girl, Andrea, escorted by student nurse Miss Nancy Mc...
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Three Injured on USH 12-18 at Madison East Side City Limits

Date: 05 11 1959
Description: Three people are injured in a two car crash on USH 12 & 18 at the Madison east side city limits at a location referred to as "Crash Curve" by law enforceme...
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Madison Safety Patrol Delegates Prepare to Leave for Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Madison's 31 delegates, representing Madison public and parochial schools, prepare to travel to the Annual National School of Safety patrol assembly in Was...
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Madison Golf Club Women Prepare for Start of Golf Season

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Mrs. Lester Lee, 1 Chippewa Court, President of the Nakoma Country Club women's organization, standing on the 18th green, preparing for the upcoming golf s...
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Madison Golf Club Women Prepare for Start of Golf Season

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Mrs. Robert Shea, 4410 Cherokee Drive, President of the Blackhawk Country Club women's organization, looks out over the rolling hills of Blackhawk Country ...
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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: To emphasize the usefulness of teenage driving clubs, Tom Cox, a member of the Cambusters Auto Club, is shown assisting a visitor from Elkhorn.
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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: Many teenage drivers learn to drive in the summer driving education courses. Sue Hubbard, a student of the course, is shown explaining the parts of an engi...
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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: John Michaelis, president of the Lancers Auto Club, is shown opening the car door for Carla Mueller. The purpose of the club is to uphold a good reputation...
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New West Wing of 1 West Wilson Street State Office Building

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: View of the new west wing for the state office building at 1 West Wilson Street, looking along Wilson Street from the west. The wing will house about 600 p...
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Student Studying on a Balmy Spring Day

Date: 04 16 1959
Description: Craig Penrith studies in the front seat of his car with the top rolled down and his shoes off in Vilas Park.
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High Water Flow at Tenney Dam Construction Site

Date: 04 02 1959
Description: Water flows through a diversion channel around the Tenney Park lock and dam construction site. A man is standing in the foreground and pointing towards men...
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Madison Police Department Install Sign on Lake Monona Shoreline

Date: 04 14 1959
Description: The Madison Police Department erects a sign at the Law Park shoreline of Lake Monona to discourage boaters from launching their boats due to lake debris le...
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Children Playing With Guns

Date: 03 30 1959
Description: Two girls with their hands up being 'pretend' robbed by ten little boys with cap-guns. They are between two closely spaced homes.

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