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Lincoln School "Ranch Hands"

Date: 10 08 1949
Description: Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb...
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Rural Schools Eighth Grade Commencement

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Eighth grade students from Dane County rural schools attending a mass commencement ceremony at Madison West High School auditorium. The ceremony was part o...
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Folk Dancers in Norwegian Costume

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Youth in traditional Norwegian costume shown performing a folk dance on the stage of Madison West High School auditorium during the mass commencement cerem...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Dorothy Lorenzen looks at several small kitchen appliances while she holds one of the earliest electric toasters at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Sh...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Joanne Johnson looking at a new style ice tray in a refrigerator with a freezer unit next to it at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East Hi...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radion Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc...
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Living Rosary

Date: 10 01 1950
Description: Five of sixty-one Edgewood college girls who took part in the "Living Rosary" ceremony are shown holding candles and rosaries. They led prayers on the rosa...
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Lapham School Halloween Party

Date: 10 31 1950
Description: At Lapham School, more than 800 costumed children and their parents attended one of the largest Halloween night parties held in Madison. Pictured is a por...
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Theater Guild Opens Season

Date: 09 1959
Description: Carol Bryant, Robert Rancourt and Nancy Fowlkes act out a scene from "The Cold Wind and the Warm", the opening play of the Madison Theater Guild season pre...
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Wisconsin Postmasters' Management Conference

Date: 02 28 1960
Description: Key participants in the Wisconsin Postmaster's Management Conference are shown, left to right: Harold Van Buren (Hartland postmaster and secretary-treasure...
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Municipal Band Concert Soloists

Date: 05 05 1960
Description: Marilyn Cirves, harp; James Kowalsky, trumpet; James Abraham, trombone; and Robert Parker, bassoon, are four of the soloists to be heard at the Madison Mun...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater Presents Tolstoy's "The First Distiller"

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc...
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West Dane County Spelling Bee

Date: 04 15 1961
Description: Contestants are lined up at the western Dane county spelling bee held in Middleton. The winner was Rachel Pautz of Verona and the runner-up was Angela Padr...
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Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo Appears with Madison Municipal Band

Date: 05 06 1961
Description: Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo appears with the Madison Municipal Band at their annual Spring Concert at the Central High School auditorium. Appearing with Do...
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Central High School Graduation

Date: 06 16 1961
Description: Elevated view of the crowd at Central High School's auditorium in attendance for graduation, with black-clad classmates in the center.
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Peter and the Wolf Cast

Date: 11 29 1954
Description: Group portrait of the principal characters for a presentation of "Peter and the Wolf" by the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra and the Kathryn Hubbard dance...

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