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Fans at Baseball Game

Date: 1960
Description: Close-up of fans shouting at a Milwaukee Braves baseball game.
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Nixon/Lodge Supporters

Date: 1960
Description: Campaigners for the 1960 Republican ticket of Richard M. Nixon for president and Henry Cabot Lodge for vice-president.
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Sheep Competition Winner

Date: 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, posing with a young winner in the lamb and sheep competition at a junior livestock exposition. Joan went on to become Miss W...
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Alice and the Winner

Date: 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w...
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Robert Bloch at Movie Event

Date: 1960
Description: Frank Chimera, Rochelle Hudson and Robert Bloch (in eyeglasses) are seated at a table at an event related to the release of the film Strait Jacket. ...
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Kennedy Presidential Campaign

Date: 1960
Description: Senator John F. Kennedy, then campaigning for the presidency, speaks with Frank D. Reeves and Marjorie Lawson during a meeting of the American Council on H...
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NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...
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Danny Kaye

Date: 1960
Description: During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow...
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Waiting in the Wings

Date: 1960
Description: The Wisconsin veterans homes and hospitals regularly enjoyed entertainment provided the Madison Elks via Ben Bergor's entertainment agency. The performance...
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Man and Woman in Drugstore

Date: 1960
Description: A man and woman stand behind the service counter at a drugstore.
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Portrait of Laura Graf

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Laura Graf seated in a chair at her home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A bookcase is behind her. Laura was born September 2, 1898 in Pewaukee (Wa...
Postcard

The Pyramid Supper Club

Date: 1960
Description: Colorized postcard view of bartenders and group of people at an Egyptian-themed cocktail bar, the Pyramid Supper Club, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Elderly Woman

Date: 1960
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified elderly woman, wearing a shawl, seated in an antique chair.
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Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1960
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alma Schmidt Petersen (1894-1989), granddaughter of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, who, with her husband, William F. Petersen ...
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Women Assembling Valentine Decoration

Date: 1960
Description: Two women are assembling a large paper valentine decoration. One woman stands on a ladder in front of a fireplace working on the top of the decoration, whi...
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Behnke's Grocery

Date: 1960
Description: William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome...
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Dr. Joan Freeman

Date: 1960
Description: Dr. Joan Freeman adjusting the clothing on a mannequin of a Native American. Dr. Freeman was the first woman to receive a PhD. in Anthropology from UW-Madi...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: view looking out of an open doorway toward two children titled: "Like Birt...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: a young girl standing with her arms crossed and looking directly at the ca...

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