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Performers at UAW Christmas Party

Date: 12 13 1947
Description: Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a...
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Japanese Boxer

Date: 01 22 1944
Description: Japanese boxer, Dick Miyagawa, with University of Wisconsin boxing coach, John J. Walsh. Miyagawa was the national collegiate champion in 1942 when he comp...
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Girl Scout Jane McElvain

Date: 01 27 1944
Description: Thirteen year old Jane McElvain, the youngest member of the Mariner Senior Girl Scout program and an editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal Newsp...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
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Jack Kammer, Track Runner

Date: 04 29 1944
Description: Jack Kammer, member of West High School track team. He won the mile race in 4:32:5.
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Dick Botham, Track Star

Date: 04 29 1944
Description: Dick Botham, West High School track star who was undefeated in the 440 yard run.
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Dick Bauhs, Track Star

Date: 04 29 1944
Description: Dick Bauhs, West High School track star, whose best time in the 200-yard low hurdles has been 24.9 seconds, and has leaped 20 feet 1/2 inch in the broad ju...
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Jerry Vetter, Pole Vaulter

Date: 04 29 1944
Description: Jerry Vetter, West High School track star, has cleared 11 feet 7 inches in the pole vault, and 21 1/2 inches in the broad jump.
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Forrest W. Gillett, II

Date: 04 29 1944
Description: Forrest W. Gillett, II, a West High School athlete who died in February 1945 after a brief illness.
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Mizell "Whitey" Platt, left, and Walter Millies, right, who were members of the Madison Blues, in the Three-I League, later part of the Great Lakes Bluejac...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: In 1934 and 1935 the most famous battery in baseball was owned by the Detroit Tigers, Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe pitching and Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochran...
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Fire Chief Edward J. Page

Date: 09 13 1944
Description: Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Departmen...
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Midget Football Team Player

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Carol Kopp adjusting the helmet on David Hoeveler, a member of the West End Tigers, midget football team.
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Boxing "Tournament of Contenders"

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: One of a group of twenty individual poses of boxers participating in the annual "Tournament of Contenders" which is open to all civilian and naval trainee ...
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Carson Gulley Standing Behind Buffet Table

Date: 01 30 1945
Description: Elevated view of chef Carson Gulley, standing behind a buffet table.
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Don Page, West High School Basketball Player

Date: 02 13 1945
Description: Don Page, all-time individual Big Eight Conference scoring record holder. The six-foot 3-inch high school center broke his own record with a total of 167 p...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Three Girl Scouts sampling cookies at the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, with a baker, Reider Strand. Left to right: Sandra Bird, 1325 Jenifer ...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of...
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Officer Frank Ingraham with School Children

Date: 04 12 1945
Description: Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ...
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Evan M. Hughes, Capitol Theatre Doorman

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the...

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