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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Shown in the foreground are Eric Peterson and Gail Canfield. Surveying the scene through the wi...
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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Pictured in rehearsal for the mystery comedy are Aleta Nelson, Mary Boyle and Paul Geisler, lef...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party featured the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Dr. James Griffin, billed as "Madison's most interesting boa...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Dr. Gordon Davenport, master of revels for the party, and Ro...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Royal trumpeters who heralded the evening's festivities at t...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Admiring a giant-sized "plum pudding" were Marjorie Davenpor...
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Rotary Club Honors Foreign Students

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Madison Rotary Club members wore cowboy outfits for their "fiesta" to honor 150 foreign students attending the University of Wisconsin. Left to right are: ...
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Madison Skating Club's Annual Ice Show

Date: 01 26 1959
Description: Four members of the Madison Skating Cub have trained skaters that will take part in the club's annual ice show. Winifred Balsley performs a graceful turn i...
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Bethel Lutheran Gives Plays During Lent

Date: 02 07 1959
Description: A series of short plays under the general title "Man on Trial" is presented at the Wednesday night services at Bethel Lutheran Church during Lent. Each pla...
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Madison's First Folk Festival and Fair

Date: 04 03 1959
Description: An authentic Scandinavian smorgasbord will be the key attraction at Madison's first Folk Festival and Fair sponsored and held at the YWCA, 122 State Street...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Variety Show

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: A scene from a variety show is put on by University of Wisconsin Dames Club units. Using a hillbilly theme, members of the Gadabouts created a musical skit...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Variety Show

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: A group of girls acts out a scene from a variety show put on by University of Wisconsin Dames Club units. The Lakeside Ladies enact "Wholesale Jeopardy", a...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Variety Show

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: Dancers in three German folk dances given by the the Badgerettes unit include, left to right: Caroline Doersch, Mrs. Dean Hoppmann, Marlene Smedema, and Ar...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Variety Show

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: A scene from a variety show is put on by University of Wisconsin Dames Club units. Actresses in a comedy-tragedy, "Apologies to the Greeks", given by the V...
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Wisconsin High School Play Cast

Date: 05 18 1959
Description: Ann Henley, Tom Wilkie, and Beverly Mickelson are cast members in the play "Playboy of the Western World", to be presented by Wisconsin High School pupils ...
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June Dairy Month on Capitol Square

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro...
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Daughters of the Nile Spring Luncheon

Date: 05 14 1959
Description: Four members of the Daughters of the Nile gather at a luncheon table decorated like a Hawaiian village at the group's spring luncheon. They include, from l...
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Daughters of the Nile Spring Luncheon

Date: 05 14 1959
Description: Four women wearing Hawaiian leis gather at the spring luncheon of the Daughters of the Nile. Left to right are: queen Mrs. Edward Dodge of Lake Mills, toas...
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Girl Scouts Off to Round-Up in Colorado

Date: 06 21 1959
Description: Representatives of the Black Hawk Council of Girl Scouts practice a Native American paddle drill in preparation for a trip to the Round-Up in Colorado. Lef...

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