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Missionfest

Date: 08 27 1946
Description: Missionfest (Dutch) traditional psalms sung on church grounds.
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Scout Mail Truck

Date: 1961
Description: A mail carrier leans out the side of a Scout 80 mail truck to hand letters to children waiting at a mailbox.
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Packers at Training Camp

Date: 1970
Description: Players jogging on the practice field in shorts and t-shirts. The Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena is visible in the background.
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: Soap box racers head down a hill on S. Midvale Boulevard as a large group of spectators are watching from behind a fence. 1953 was the first year Madison's...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Audience

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: View down the hill at the Madison Soap Box Derby on South Midvale Boulevard during a soap box derby race. One car is visible on the track and a large crowd...
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Circus Parade Calliope Truck

Date: 07 04 1963
Description: A calliope truck with text reading "Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. Presents / A Day in Old Milwaukee / July 4th / Featuring Schlitz Circus Parade" drives down a ...
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Circus Parade

Date: 06 1963
Description: A Sauk County traffic police vehicle leads a line of circus wagons through past two church buildings during a parade originating at Circus World Museum in ...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
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...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Emil Thomas taking his beagle, BeBe, on a leash with him to fish. Walking along the dirt shore of the pond at Tenney Park, the dog is pulling on the leash,...
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Borden Dairy Float with Beulah

Date: 05 12 1954
Description: Station wagon pulling a float for Borden's Dairy on a trailer at the Governor's luncheon for the Dairy Foods Festival held at the Edgewater Hotel. The floa...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: John Philpot (standing with cane) asking Herman Woerpel if he'd put on a little weight! Looking on is Edward Duschek, sitting in the driver's seat of a car...
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Parents and children sitting on a blanket on a lawn and looking down over the swimming pool, which is enclosed by a chain-link fence at Badger Park.
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: After passing the intersection of Monroe and Regent Streets, the brakeman gets back on the train for the trip to Freeport on the Illinois Central Railroad.

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