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| Date: | 12 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Eleven boys watching another practice a free throw for the Madison Department of Recreation boys basketball team. |
| Date: | 12 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Madison Department of Recreation boys basketball team. |
| Date: | 11 19 1934 |
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| Description: | Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley. |
| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing dressing gown, stands in the doorway of a train and signs autographs for clamoring fans, with a train porter in uniform standing by. |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n... |
| Date: | 01 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Gulley's (Mrs. Carson Gulley) birthday party. Group portrait of family and friends posing around a small table with birthday cake and flowers. |
| Date: | 10 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Two Central High School football players. 4219B-1 is unknown. 4219B-2 is Ernie Mitchell, who is African American. |
| Date: | 06 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Evangelist W.P. Butler with hand upraised and Rev. Joseph Washington, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church stand beside Lulu Elroy who is about to be baptized... |
| Date: | 10 29 1931 |
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| Description: | William Pearl with his "Tia Juana hot tamales" cart and a woman customer eating a hot tamale. |
| Date: | 07 07 1931 |
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| Description: | 3F Steam Laundry curb service, 731 University Avenue. Showing employee taking laundry from an automobile. A sign posted on the tree on the right reads: "Cu... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | F&W Grand store window, located at 15 W. Main Street, displays 33 rpm records, jewelry, and advertising for Amos n' Andy in the film "Check and Double Chec... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Samuel Pierce is seated at a desk in the executive offices of the Governor. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Rosalie, Ollie Mae, and Adrena Matthews posing by their garden, near the front step... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner in the Senior category garden competition, Mrs. Ora Smith, sitting on th... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Myra Denning Allison, daughter of Civil War veteran Charles Denning. Myra ran an interracial and international boarding house at 217 N. Mills S... |
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