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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house...
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Peter Smith, Joan Holm Wedding

Date: 06 20 1953
Description: Newlyweds Joan Marie Holm and Peter Byrd Smith in a car following the wedding service at First Baptist church.
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Madison's Boys Baseball Program

Date: 06 15 1953
Description: "Johnny" Zeier, manager and coach of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Madison's Boys Baseball program. Zeier was a Softball Hall of Fame pitcher.
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Peonies Aid Good Cause

Date: 06 14 1953
Description: Group of three women selling peonies. They are (L-R): Jean Monroe; Mrs. J.A. Ragone, chaperone at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house; and Alice Aten. The...
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1953
Description: Madison observed Memorial Day with a parade and three memorial services. A Memorial Day address by Assemblyman Elmer L. Genxmer was followed by a wreath ce...
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Baptism of Wills Triplets

Date: 06 28
Description: The triplet daughters of William and Joyce Wills are baptized at Luther Memorial Church. Sponsor Mrs. Morris Wills holds infant Jacqueline Diane at left, D...
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Maple Bluff Social Event for Teens

Date: 06 26 1953
Description: David Vilas is shown pinning a carnation corsage on his date, Beth Herman, at the Maple Bluff social party for teens.
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Flag Day at Veteran's Hospital

Date: 06 15 1953
Description: View across road towards eight members of Madison American Legion and its Auxiliary posed and raising a large new flag at the Veteran's Administration Hosp...
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...
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Beach Scene

Date: 06 16 1953
Description: View of a crowd of people, mostly in swimsuits, at what might be Vilas Beach on Lake Wingra. There is a concession stand in a building in the background. A...
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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Mary Emmerich learning to release and lift an auto's hood under the direction of West High basketball coach and driving instructor, Don Page.
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Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 11 1953
Description: A group of Lapham School third grade children are lining up to begin a tour of the Bowman Farm Dairy on Fish Hatchery Road. At the head of the line are Geo...
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La Sertoma Club

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Mrs. Harry Warren (left), treasurer of the Milwaukee La Sertoma looks on while Carol Burns (right), president of the Madison group, adjusts the corsage wor...
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Dane County Association of Health Councils

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Four elected officers of the Dane County Association of Health Councils posing for a group portrait before planning a spring county-wide health survey. Sta...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Edith Getz and Lillian Fried demonstrate how to cook pancakes on an improvised griddle made of bricks and metal sheets during an emergency mass feeding dem...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Helen Giessel, left, holds a large juice can as Avis McLean cuts it with a tin sheers to make a plate during part of an emergency mass feeding demonstratio...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Mildred Ryerson, left, and Melvin Dykman mixing mortar for brick stoves and ovens as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruct...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: As part of a emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruction at Franklin Field, Eldred Heiser ladles soup from a large kettle to Isabelle Hy...
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Madison Youth Council

Date: 11 02 1954
Description: New officers and advisers of the Madison Youth Council attend the group's annual banquet. Seated (left to right) are: Michael Stein, treasurer; Mary Kate L...
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Madison Youth Council

Date: 11 02 1954
Description: Madison Youth Council vice-president Judy Vander Meulen, a student at East High School, presents scrolls of appreciation to two retiring advisers to the co...

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