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Gaylord Nelson Chats With Boys

Date: 07 1974
Description: Nelson takes time out during a campaign trip to talk with two boys. Dressed casually, Nelson is shown squatting down in a marsh area between the boys who a...
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Madison's 1958 measles season started with Kurt Tezlaff, at right, then went to Kaye Kennan, then to Kevin Kennan and then to Wendy Kennan. In the Kennan f...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: The 1958 red measles season has started in Madison. Marilyn Kelso, her son Robbie Kelso, seated on her lap, and son Tom Kelso, on the right, received gamma...
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Auto Buy Week

Date: 05 02 1958
Description: Winston Smith and his son, Wade, sit in their restored 1909 Cadillac automobile before the "You Auto Buy Now" parade.
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Five Generations

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Five generations of a family are represented in this Mothers' Day picture of Carrie Damman and her great-great grandson Jeffrey Peter Cerniglia. The five l...
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UW-Madison Library Mall Fountain

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: James, the three-year-old son of Philip and Mrs. Staudenraus, playing with a sprinkling can in the new University of Wisconsin library mall fountain.
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Orchard Ridge School

Date: 07 21 1958
Description: Alec McDonnell and Charles Brewer, two future students of the new Orchard Ridge Elementary School, pause on their bicycles to check the progress of the fir...
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Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Pat, 8, and Vicki Rohan, 14, examine some of the equipment in the press room of Madison Newspapers, Inc. The photograph was taken for part of an article su...
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Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Six year old twins Billy and Martha Haygood lying in the grass next to a pond, looking down at trout fingerlings swimming at the fish hatchery located on F...
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Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine...
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Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Judith 7, and Barbara, 4, daughters of Dr. and Mrs Richard MacLean of Sheridan, Wyoming, watching cows being milked in the milking parlor at the Bowman Dai...
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Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Automatic Temperature team, winners of the West Midget Vilas No. 3 League title. Front row: Bill Recob, Tom Wagner, Steve Werner. Bac...
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Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Rentschler team of the West Midget Midvale No. 2 baseball league. Left to right front row: Randy Wise, Mike Plautz, Tommy Eisele, St...
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Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Tastee Freeze team, champions of the East Midget Central No. 1 Baseball League. Front row left to right: Ken Spraetz, Dick Scanlon, ...
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Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Kupfer Foundry team, winners of the East Midget Burr Jones baseball league. Front row, left to right: Paul Holtzman, Jim PiPiazza, Fr...
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Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of Badeau Plumbing's Midget baseball team, winners of the East Midget Central No. 3 championship. Batboy seated in front: Steve Badeau. Knee...
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Kiwanis Midgets Win Midvale League Title

Date: 08 1958
Description: Portrait of the Kiwanis Midget baseball team after winning the Midvale No. 1 league title. Left to right, kneeling: Gordon Webb, David Young, Bill Draper, ...
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Shamrocks Win West Midget Wingra Championship

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Shamrocks midget baseball team after winning its first playoff game in the West Midget Wingra playoffs. Left to right, front row: Ted...
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Thaller's Midget Baseball Team

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of Thaller's Steak House team, East Midget Central No. 2 champions. Having been unbeaten in 18 games, they lost to Gallagher's in the title ...

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