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Burke Anniversary Party

Date: 09 30 1934
Description: Formal group portrait of the extended Burke family taken at 50th wedding anniversary celebration.
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Interior of Harry's Food Shop

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Interior of Harry's Food Shop, 1122 Chandler Street, owned by Harry and Loretta Blodau, with customer Mary Huth with her children. Patricia Huth is sitting...
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Private Fred Schneider and wife with crowd in the water at a beach.
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Charles and E. Pearl Dean Anniversary

Date: 05 18 1953
Description: Group portrait of Charles L. and E. Pearl Dean and their family, gathered for the couple's 50th wedding anniversary.
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New Residents

Date: 09 13 1954
Description: Group portrait of new Madison residents Colonel Douglas and Mary Reeve, with their daughter Linda (age 11). They recently came to Madison from Newport, Rho...
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Franz Massing, Wife and Child

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Description: Half plate ambrotype of Franz Massing with his wife, and daughter Frances. Massing was the founder of the Madison Mannerchor in 1870. The family is seated....
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Postal Auxiliary Meeting

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: A convention of the state auxiliary of the National Association of Postal Supervisors met in Madison at the Simon House. Children and wives of postal super...
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Firemen Treat Handicapped Children to Braves Game

Date: 08 10 1960
Description: Madison firemen from Station No. 3 at 1217 Williamson Street, along with their wives, took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game ...
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Captain Robert C. Burns' wife Carol and sons Bruce and Terry are sitting together. Captain Burns has been called up for active dut...
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Staff Sargent Paul A. Haack's wife Margaret and two sons are playing in a front yard with a dog. Staff Sargent Haack was called up...
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Lieutenant Colonel John D. Winner's wife Marcelaine and children sitting together for a group portrait. He was called up for activ...
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Two Year Old Girl Abducted from Her Front Yard by Salesman

Date: 04 01 1964
Description: Mrs. Thomas Howard, wife of accused child abductor, Thomas Howard, listens intently at his circuit court arraignment hearing. Howard is accused of abductin...
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Family Posing in Front of Fireplace

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: A couple with their young daughter posing in front of a home fireplace to take a photograph for their Christmas Card.
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Dream House Built from Plans in Newspaper

Date: 11 29 1960
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. (Schim) Elliott and son Michael in the living room of their house built as their "dream home" from plans in the Wisconsin State J...

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