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Bloomington Public School

Date: 1956
Description: School known as the "old stone school," the first public school building in Bloomington. The clock tower replaced the former bell tower.
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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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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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New St. James Grade School Opens

Date: 01 04 1959
Description: The American flag is raised on the flagpole of the new St. James Catholic grade school. The three safety patrol members raising the flag are (left to right...
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New St. James Grade School Opens

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: The American flag is raised on the flagpole in front of the new St.James Catholic grade school on St. James Court. More than 300 pupils stand for the flag ...
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We Saw You . . . on First Day of New Term

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Group of unidentified Hoyt School students stop their playing and chatting long enough to smile for the photographer during the first day of the new school...
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Wisconsin Postmasters' Management Conference

Date: 02 28 1960
Description: Key participants in the Wisconsin Postmaster's Management Conference are shown, left to right: Harold Van Buren (Hartland postmaster and secretary-treasure...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater Presents Tolstoy's "The First Distiller"

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc...
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Little League Baseball Players Leave for Milwaukee Braves-San Francisco Giants Game

Date: 08 13 1960
Description: More than 350 Little League baseball players are waiting in front of Monona Grove High School for the seven chartered buses which will take them to the Mil...
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Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Republican candidates for state office started a week-long campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, the birthplace of the GOP in 1854. Standing o...
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Kuehn for Governor Campaign

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Secretary of State Robert Zimmerman spoke at the brief program at the Little White Schoolhouse (also known as the Birthplace of the Republican Party) while...
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GOP Campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: A Republican campaign starts at the Little White Schoolhouse, also known as the Birthplace of the Republican Party. Philip Kuehn, Republican candidate for ...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Edwin Steul, left, and S...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Five University of Wisco...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Two former residents, Ch...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scene from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Four cast members of the ...
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Wisconsin HIgh School Football Team

Date: 09 12 1961
Description: Wisconsin High School's football team opens its season against Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam. Coach Hal Metzen's Badger Preps meet Monroe here in a Badger ...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: A special observance of Thanksgiving held at Randall Kindergarten featured costumed children. At left are Linda Kay and Robert Willard as pilgrims. On the...
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Guidance Counselor Dora Schenk

Date: 04 09 1961
Description: Mrs. Dora Schenk, guidance counselor at Herbert Schenk School in Madison, meeting with student Sue Schreiber and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Schreiber.
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New Lake View School

Date: 05 04 1961
Description: Exterior northeast view of Madison's newly built Lake View School on North Sherman Avenue. It will house 14 classrooms, two kindergartens, an all-purpose r...

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