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'Outdoor Living Day' in Madison

Date: 05 18 1959
Description: Model Marlyn Sachtjen sitting on the edge of a temporary pool that had been installed on Capitol Park. She is wet after having fallen off a floating raft w...
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Edgewood High School Honor Students

Date: 05 28 1958
Description: Ten scholarship winners in their caps and gowns, honored at a ceremony for Edgewood senior high honor students are, left to right: Thomas Wildeman, Abigail...
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Junior Red Cross Blood Drive Recruitment

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: Preparing letters to high school students congratulating them on their 18th birthday and inviting them to join the Junior Red Cross "18 Club" of blood dono...
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Junior Red Cross Blood Drive Recruitment

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: Dick Johnson, center, with a birthday cake, being honored as the first blood donor recruited by the Junior Red Cross "18 Club. At left is Carla Helmus, Eas...
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New Commemorative Stamp Issued

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: George and Sara Johnson holding a strip of 3 cent Gunston Hall commemorative stamps featuring the home built in 1758 for George Mason. He was the author of...
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Maurice Reese and Gov. Vernon Thomson

Date: 05 30 1958
Description: Maurice Reese, left and Gov. Vernon Thomson standing outdoors. Reese is division manager for the Federal Life Insurance Company, and has announced that he ...
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Edgewood College Graduation

Date: 05 31 1958
Description: Commencement ceremony in Edgewood College's new Regina Hall, showing the college glee club in the foreground, with graduates and audience sitting in the ba...
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Edgewood College Alumnae Barbecue

Date: 06 03 1958
Description: Group portrait of committee chairmen for the Edgewood College Alumnae chicken barbecue. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Norbert Esser, Mrs. James Rose, Ann Swe...
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GAR Daughters Honor Civil War Veterans

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: A group of the Wisconsin Section of the National Daughters of the Grand Army of the Republic organization laying a memorial wreath to Civil War veterans at...
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Twila Nolen Given a Silver Dollar

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: Twila Nolen, a waitress at Rohde's Steak House, is shown after receiving her second silver dollar from the Madison Chamber of Commerce. It is part of a Jun...
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World's Largest Insurance Policy

Date: 07 18 1958
Description: Three men next to a large poster with the words: "World's Largest Insurance Policy issued to Milwaukee Braves on behalf of Citizens of Wisconsin. Vernon Th...
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Drummer Performing

Date: 07 18 1958
Description: Close-up of a man identified in caption as "Mario" playing his drums on the Memorial Union Terrace.
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Summer on Memorial Union Terrace

Date: 07 18 1958
Description: View from above of U.W. students seated around small tables on the Memorial Union Terrace. The original newspaper caption jokingly labels their leisure tim...
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Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Laurie Stein, 5 year old daughter of photographer Edwin Stein, playing in a double hammock with her friend Sara.
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Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Jimmie Stein, two year old son of photographer Edwin Stein, lying in a hammock.
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Madison Youth Summer Theatre

Date: 07 24 1958
Description: Mary-Kate Lorenz, left, directs Anna Lee Henningsen, seated, Lois Suomi, kneeling, and Ann Mannering, standing, in the spanking scene from Youth Summer the...
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Redecorating West High School Auditorium

Date: 08 15 1958
Description: Ernest LaBella, Capital Decorating Co., is repairing a seat in the West High School auditorium as part of an effort to prepare city school buildings for th...
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Event Planning Committee

Date: 08 11 1958
Description: Committee members in charge of "Summer Farewell", a teen-college age dance to be held at the Nakoma Golf Club. In the foreground is Karen Mickelson holding...
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International Religious Fellowship Conference

Date: 08 15 1958
Description: Among the 30 European and 100 American youths attending the International Religious Fellowship Conference at the Dane County fairgrounds are, left to right...
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Site of New St. James Catholic School

Date: 08 16 1958
Description: Construction work begins for the new school next to St. James Catholic Church. The two-story structure will include 12 classrooms and a gymnasium.

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