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Hill's Department Store Employees Party

Date: 05 29 1933
Description: Group portrait of Hill's Dry Goods Store employees at dinner dance party, Schenk's Hall, 2028 Atwood Avenue. A woman sitting in the center, a woman standin...
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Railroad Engineers Banquet

Date: 01 31 1933
Description: Group portrait of Chicago & North Western railroad engineers at a banquet at Schenk's Hall in the Schenk-Huegel building, corner of 2005 Winnebago and 2028...
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School Field Trip to the U.S. Post Office

Date: 03 23 1932
Description: A man is leading Dudgeon School children through the mail sorting area on their tour of the post office.
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James McGilligan at Police Station

Date: 05 21 1931
Description: James McGilligan, accused of impersonating a physician, sitting at the police station.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices

Date: 10 13 1930
Description: Robed Wisconsin Supreme Court justices sitting in their courtroom in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Herbert Kellar and Clifford Lord

Date: 12 1951
Description: State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director Clifford Lord (left) and McCormick Collection Director Herbert Kellar examining packages of manuscripts. The...
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Sun Prairie Freshman Class

Date: 1914
Description: Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image.
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Older Adult Klub String Trio

Date: 09 29 1955
Description: The string trio of the Older Adult Klub (OAK), Gus Torgerson, Henry Brenneman, and Julia Bennett, rehearsing for a senior citizen workshop on recreation fo...
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Governor Goodland at the Historical Society

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Description: Clifford L. Lord, director of the State Historical Society (on the right), seated with Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland at an event at the Wiscon...
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State Assembly Audience

Date: 1947
Description: Audience at a session of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Clothing Collected for Korea

Date: 11 04 1950
Description: Dick Brilliott, left, and John Hudson, co-chairmen of the Madison Youth Clothes-for-Korea drive, eye the piles of clothing lining the halls of the Madison ...
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Older Adult Klub Activities

Date: 02 13 1951
Description: Older Adult Klub members enjoy snacks at the Madison Community Center. They are, from left: Mrs. Mabel Ott, Arthur Hawley, Mrs. Grace Ware, and Martin Nels...
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Older Adult Klub Activities

Date: 02 13 1951
Description: C.R. Cripps watching his friend J.W. Brown line up a shot during a game of pool at the Madison Community Center during a gathering of the Older Adult Klub.
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East Side Postal Station to Open

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv...
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Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t...
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Sid at the Wisconsin Historical Society

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Description: Sid sitting outdoors on bleachers on the Library Mall in front of the entrance to the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is holding an open umbrella above hi...
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Sid at the Wisconsin Historical Society

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Description: Sid sitting outdoors on the top row of a set of bleachers on the Library Mall in front of the entrance to the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is holding a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in...
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Dane County Board Meeting

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: Hermann Eisner (left) from the town of Berry is speaking as Dane County Board Chairman Robert Eisner of Madison Ward 17 rapping his gavel. The air is hazy ...

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