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Girl Scouts Off to Round-Up in Colorado

Date: 06 21 1959
Description: Winnie Neil Chapman and Betsy Paddock pitch a tent in preparation for the Girl Scout Round-Up in Colorado.
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Victorious Badgers Hold IRA Trophy

Date: 06 20 1959
Description: The Wisconsin rowing team returns to Madison with the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) trophy from the IRA varsity rowing event. Shown (left to rig...
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Victorious Badgers Return with IRA Trophy

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: Professor Ray Dvorak, U.W. Band Director, and fourteen band members put on a resounding reception for the U.W. Rowing team when they arrived at the Milwauk...
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Wisconsin 4-H Club Conference and Picnic

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Prominent Madison residents helped serve the 4-H group at the picnic on the University of Wisconsin inter-mural field. From left to right are: R.M. Henders...
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Wisconsin 4-H Club Conference and Picnic

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: The sessions, at the 4-H picnic, centered along the theme: "Preparing Today for Tomorrow" and were held Monday through Thursday on the University of Wiscon...
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Women's 2nd Annual City Golf Tournament First Round Leaders

Date: 06 15 1959
Description: The 2nd annual women's city golf tournament begins at the Blackhawk County Club in Madison. The first round leaders (shown left to right) are Mrs. Philip K...
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Bicyle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: A girl and a boy, both wearing crowns, are posing on the open back of a convertible top automobile. They are the queen and king of the Bicycle Safety Week ...
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Wisconsin 4-H Club Conference and Picnic

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Some of the individuals attending the picnic for delegates at the Wisconsin 4-H Club conference are, left to right, Judy Rithamel, Walworth county; Lorrain...
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Madison JCC District Junior Golf Tournament

Date: 06 15 1959
Description: The Madison JCC District Junior golf tournament is held at West Side Park (Odana) golf course. A total of 107 golfers took part in the single round tournam...
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Subscription Contest Winners

Date: 06 23 1959
Description: 44 young carrier salesmen for the Wisconsin State Journal posing in front of a bus that will take them off "for three days packed full of fun in Chi...
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We Saw You . . . Guests of Bishop O'Connor

Date: 07 12 1959
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor hosts more than a thousand guests & members of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and their families at a chicken ba...
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We Saw You . . . Guests of Bishop O'Connor

Date: 07 12 1959
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor hosts more than one thousand guests and members of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and their families for a chick...
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We Saw You . . . Guests of Bishop O'Conner

Date: 07 12 1959
Description: Bishop William P. O'Conner hosts more than a thousand members of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and their families. Shown with Bishop O'Con...
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We Saw You . . . Guests of Bishop O'Conner

Date: 07 12 1959
Description: Bishop William O'Connor hosts members of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and their families. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sheppard, from Palmyra, and...
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: Entries at the 1959 Dane County Junior Fair are, left, Sue Soldwedel, 14, 316 Lakewood Blvd., showing her Hereford junior yearling steer, and right, Linda ...
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University League Tea

Date: 07 07 1959
Description: Four guests attend the University League tea in honor of the wives of visiting summer session faculty at the University of Wisconsin. Pictured are Mrs. Alt...
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: The 1959 Dane County Junior Fair dairy cattle show includes 577 entries. Shown unloading a trailer load of hay bought in by the Hope 4-H Club to feed his G...
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Richie Robinson and Horse

Date: 06 23 1959
Description: Richard Robinson of Pewaukee sitting astride his horse, "Quaker Question Mark," during the Madison Saddle Club Horse Show. They were one of the winners of ...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Association Scholarships

Date: 06 18 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Jane Stark and Mrs. Margaret Stehr, officers of the Madison Alumnar Panhellenic Association, are shown with three 1959 high school graduates that...
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Mowing a Steep Slope

Date: 06 26 1959
Description: Richard Brachman, an engineer, demonstrates his solution for the problem of mowing the grass on a steep slope near his home. He removed the handles of his ...

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