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St. Bernard's School Christmas Pageant

Date: 12 12 1952
Description: St. Bernard's Catholic School Christmas pageant, showing choir, angels, Mary, Joseph and Infant, with audience in foreground.
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Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin students in the Rathskeller during a presentation by the cartoonist Walt Kelly.
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Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Pontifical Field Mass

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: Archbishop Philip Pocock of Winnipeg preaching the sermon at the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine pontifical field mass held at Breese Stevens Field.
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Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Pontifical Field Mass

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: Archbishop Philip Pocock of Winnipeg preaching the sermon at the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine pontifical field mass held at Breese Stevens Field. T...
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Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Pontifical Field Mass

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: View of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine pontifical field mass held at Breese Stevens Field. The Most Reverend John Treacy, bishop of the La Crosse ...
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University of Wisconsin Graduation

Date: 06 17 1955
Description: Flanked by families and friends, the University of Wisconsin class of 1955 is seated in the stands at their graduation in Camp Randall Stadium.
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Woman Talking to a Group of Women

Date: 12 03 1952
Description: A woman talks to a group of women while two men stand in the background.
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Wright for Stevenson

Date: 1952
Description: Among those attending a dinner for Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1952 was Frank Lloyd Wright and Oligavanna Lloyd Wright.
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George Forrester at Ringling Circus

Date: 1953
Description: Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: The audience at the Badger Spelling Bee audience, comprised of parents, teachers and students, sitting in an auditorium. The 1950 Badger Spelling Bee was s...
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Annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine Show

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: A group of clowns posing with their small car during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field.
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Annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine Show

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Two Knights of Columbus clowns are pretending to take someone's picture during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field.
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Dane County Republican Party Rally

Date: 08 24 1950
Description: View of the crowd at the Dane County rally of the Republican party sitting at the Eagle's Club in Madison.
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Nakoma School Play

Date: 11 17 1950
Description: Nakoma School third grade children watching a class play, "Democracy for Boys and Girls." The children were assigned to find out where their ancestors came...
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Neighborhood Play Acting

Date: 07 18 1951
Description: A group of children sitting on the lawn in a residental neighborhood watching seven other children acting in a play in front of a make-shift stage.
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Clown Entertaining Children

Date: 08 01 1951
Description: A clown dressed in western costume entertaining children and youth during the Knights of Columbus and Zor Shrine softball game at Breese Steven's Field.
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Polio Resistance Exerciser

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is...
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Edgewood 70th Anniversary Mass

Date: 10 24 1951
Description: Mass is celebrated on the stage of the high school auditorium for Edgewood's 70th anniversary.
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio...

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