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Reliability Race Winner

Date: 08 1928
Description: John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ...
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Prize-winning Gladiolas

Date: 1955
Description: A smiling girl poses with stalks of gladiolas that won the champion ribbon for "Gladiolus Spike," and the first premium ribbon for "Horticulture Plants and...
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Rennebohm Scholars and Committee Members

Date: 12 1967
Description: Former Governor and Mrs. Rennebohm pose with Rennebohm scholars and committee members. Back row, left to right: Dean Uhl, John Walsh, Terry Geurkink, Ronal...
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Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: Milwaukee Braves pitchers Warren Spahn (left) and Lew Burdette posing with awards they recieved at the 5th Annual Diamond Dinner, hosted by the Milwaukee C...
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John Quinn and Fred Haney

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: Milwaukee Braves General Manager John Quinn (left) and manager Fred Haney (right) accept awards at the 5th Annual Diamond Dinner, hosted by the Milwaukee C...
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Warren Spahn, John Quinn and Lew Burdette

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: Milwaukee Braves pitchers Warren Spahn (left) and Lew Burdette (right) flank Braves' General Manager John Quinn at the 5th Annual Diamond Dinner hosted by ...
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Gaylord Nelson Receives the Presidential Freedom Award

Date: 1995
Description: President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Nelson during the award ceremony. Clinton added a message and his signature at the bottom of the photograph.
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Sister M. Jeanette, O.P.

Date: 1944
Description: Sister M. Jeaneatte, pharmacist for Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New York, posed by medicine dispensers. Sister M. Jeanette was a recipient of the ...
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Award to Chavez

Date: 1969
Description: Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen...
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Derleth and Gov. Knowles

Date: 09 1966
Description: Writer August Derleth with Governor Warren Knowles. Knowles had presented Derleth with the Wisconsin Arts Award.
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Houdini Award

Date: 1941
Description: Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou...
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Houdini Award Presentation

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Beatrice Houdini presenting the Houdini Award Album to Ben Bergor, a Madison magician. The award was made annually by the Houdini Club of Wisconsin to...
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Arden Shenker and Mark Laufman

Date: 1975
Description: Arden Shenker presents the Madison Jewish Community Council Young Leadership award to Mark Laufman.
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Robert Doyle Honored by Red Arrow Club

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: For contributing to the morale of state troops in the South Pacific by his work as a war correspondent, Robert Doyle (right), a Milwaukee Journal re...
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Elda Strahm

Date: 1935
Description: Elda Strahm, 13, poses outside her home with many prize ribbons which she won at the Green County and Wisconsin State Fairs. Another girl stands on the lef...
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Nelson Cruikshank and Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 12 01 1972
Description: The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF...
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Community Achievement Award

Date: 1961
Description: Dr. Thomas Boston and unidentified group standing outdoors on the lawn in front of a building (most likely St. Joseph's Hospital employees and State Medica...
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Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt

Date: 04 19 1970
Description: Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne...
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Dickey Chapelle Receiving Polk Award

Date: 04 13 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle receiving the George Polk Memorial Award from William Lawrence of The New York Times at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Governor Warren Knowles and Georgia O'Keeffe

Date: 1966
Description: Governor Warren Knowles and Artist Georgia O'Keeffe at the presentation of the Wisconsin Governor's Award for Creativity in the Arts.

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