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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Uprooting a tree stump, left to right are: Ronald Giblin, Leatrice... |
| Date: | 04 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Four girls are gathered at a picnic table while making stew at Brownie Day Camp at Burrows Park. A lake is in the background. Left to right: Gloria Branden... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts carry water up a hill to their camp site at Camp Greenwood, a day camp at Picnic Point for Intermediate Girl Scouts between the ages of 10 and ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning. |
| Date: | 07 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Stanley Hill, vice-president of the Male Garden Club of Madison, posing beside some flowers at Olbrich Park Botanical Gardens. |
| Date: | 07 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Judy Moore (right) watches intently as Gale Cnare snips off pieces of crepe paper to be used in decorating the vehicles for the children's parade in Conkli... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Hill captain Werner Schorr smooths snow near the base of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk ... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d... |
| Date: | 06 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen painting the merry-go-round at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
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