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Renewed Robert Hall Salesroom Opened

Date: 03 06 1959
Description: Mayor Ivan Nestingen is shown cutting the ribbon to officially open the reconstructed Robert Hall salesroom, 3205 E. Washington Avenue after the interior w...
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Storm Puts City on Emergency Footing

Date: 03 07 1959
Description: Snow covered steps of the capitol building, as well as two cars covered with snow. Sign between the cars reads: "Use Ground Floor". The caption adds: "Well...
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Medical Society Receives Portraits

Date: 03 13 1959
Description: Portraits of nine past presidents of the Wisconsin State Medical society were presented by the members of the Dane County Medical Society auxiliary to be h...
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Dr. Theophilus Taylor, Presbyterian Minister

Date: 03 09 1959
Description: Dr. Theophilus Taylor, Presbyterian world leader, spoke in Madison at a banquet at the Memorial Union, about the current and growing complexity of the mini...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Chief's Visit

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: International president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Maurice Sexton, from Palmerston North, New Zealand, stopped in Madison at the Edgewater Hotel on...
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for County Hospital Wing

Date: 04 13 1959
Description: A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the new mental health wing of the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. Shown (L-R) are Bert Thompson, county bui...
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Eldon Fremming, Deputy Fire Marshall

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: Portrait of Eldon Fremming, Wausau, recently sworn in as the new state deputy fire marshall.
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William D. Rossiter

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: Portrait of William Rossiter, chief of the fire marshal division of the State Insurance Department and soon to be elected president of the International As...
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Larry Brilliott, Barber, and Governor Nelson

Date: 04 27 1959
Description: Barber Larry Brilliott (standing and reflected in mirror) and Governor Gaylord Nelson, who is sitting in a barber chair in the Park Hotel barber shop. Bril...
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Shirley and Mary Wright

Date: 04 27 1959
Description: Mary Wright, left, holds the telephone for her mother Shirley, who is chair of the upcoming annual spring luncheon of the Daughters of Demeter organization...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Virginia Purnell, left, introduces three new probationary members of the Attic Angels, left to right: Cath. Burnham, Mrs. W.G. Hotchkiss, and Virginia Hall...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 21 1959
Description: Present at the Attic Angels' annual business luncheon are two probationary members, Gail Stebbins and Arietta Hastings, left, with Attic Angels members, An...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Three new board members of the Attic Angels Association at the annual business luncheon are, left to right: Gene Johnson, Dorcas Nickles, and Theodora Kubl...
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Maharajah Visits Madison

Date: 05 01 1959
Description: His Highness, the Maharajah of Mysore India, left, being greeted on arrival by Prof. A. Campbell Garnett, center, of the U.W. philosophy department. The pe...
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Father Cyril Geary, O.P.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Portrait of the Very Rev. Geary, standing in front of a crucifix. He will be the new pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2181 Rowley Avenue.
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 31 1959
Description: Demonstrating the Navy Research laboratory's electronic computer to a high school student is, seated, experimental physicist, Dr. Anneke Levelt. Dr. Levelt...
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Bird's Nest

Date: 05 28 1959
Description: A robin feeding a worm to baby birds in a nest located in a flower pot on the balcony of the C.A. Grant apartment, 111 Wilson Street.
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Man Relaxing in the Sun

Date: 06 01 1959
Description: Kenneth Svee lying on top of a picnic table with a dog beside him in the backyard of a home.

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