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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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Badger Kennel Dog Show

Date: 06 28 1953
Description: A contestant in the Badger Kennel Dog Show is Lady, a German shepherd police dog. Two year old Malcolm Knight is petting the dog's head.
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Badger Kennel Dog Show

Date: 06 28 1953
Description: One of the contestants in the Badger Kennel Dog Show is Cimmaron, a Red Setter dog shown here with his owner, Dan Murray.
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Badger Kennel Dog Show

Date: 06 28 1953
Description: A contestant in the Badger Kennel Dog Show is a midget bulldog held by owner Barbara Allen, age 7, of Sterling, Illinois.
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Winkie the Vilas Park Elephant

Date: 06 28 1953
Description: Winkie, the Vilas Park elephant, attending a celebration of her third birthday. Attendants accompanying Winkie are Tom Frisch, extreme left; Zoo director H...
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Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches

Date: 08 03 1953
Description: Kurt Gerhart offering some grass to a rabbit at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches

Date: 08 03 1953
Description: Katherine Bird of Winnetka, Illinois, offering some grass to two deer at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Two youthful hunters, Denny Reul and Tom Goedell of Madison, watching Jerry Teesdale pointing out the vital points a hunter must hit to get his buck at a t...
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Ice Fishing on Salmo Pond

Date: 01 1954
Description: Fisherman Walter Meske of Watertown holds up a fish he caught while ice fishing on Salmo Pond near Black Earth.

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