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Train Cars Decorated for University of Wisconsin Clubs

Date: 1896
Description: Young man posing on train tracks in front of two passenger cars decorated with banners for the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club.
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Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club on Train

Date: 1896
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o...
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Kiwanis Club Recognition of Madison Newspapers

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G...
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Kiwanis Club Guests

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Connie Schwoegler, world's champion bowler, and Roundy Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, wearing "world champion" hats at a Kiwanis Club ...
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Madison Exchange Club Meeeting

Date: 11 31 1951
Description: Seated at the banquet table are D. Russell Bontager, Indiana legislator, at left, and Henry Marshall, Galesburg, Illinois, at right, who were guests of the...
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Madison Optimists Installation of Officers

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: William C. Williamson, right, hands over the president's gavel to the new president of the Madison Optimists, John. L. Lonergan.
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Obey Fights for Us

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Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey sits on stage with an unidentified guest speaker. There is a campaign banner behind them, and an audience is in the for...
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Sertoma Gives to Polio Fund

Date: 10 01 1959
Description: The Madison Sertoma Club presented a check for $100 to the National Foundation to aid polio patients. Dr. Robert Harmon, right, Dane County chapter emergen...
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Optimist Clubs Youth Appreciation Banquet

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Ma Kennedy (left), Wilburt Wittwer, and Edmond Schwen discuss the program of the youth appreciation banquet sponsored by the six Madison Optimist clubs.
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Madison Optimist Clubs Youth Appreciation Banquet

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Chatting with Mary Wright, vice-president of the West High School senate, are Wendell C. Matthews, left, president of the Associated Optimist clubs of Madi...
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West Side Kiwanis Club Installs New Officers

Date: 12 30 1960
Description: Group portrait of the new officers of the West Side Kiwanis Club. The installing officer, Glen Pound, lieutenant governor of the Kiwanis Capitol division, ...
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New Kiwanis Officers

Date: 01 16 1961
Description: New officers of the Downtown Kiwanis club are installed. They include, left to right: V.W. (Matt) Matthias, manager of the University of Wisconsin farms, p...
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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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Ducks Unlimited Promotion

Date: 02 1964
Description: Group portrait of four men, taken at the Club Chanticleer, holding up a banner depicting ducks in a marsh. There is a "Support Ducks Unlimited" poster in t...
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Honoring Mothers

Date: 05 05 1955
Description: A young man is standing and smiling and looking at a woman sitting on the left, while another young man sitting on the right is looking on. In front of the...
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Rotary Football Preview Lunch

Date: 06 26 1957
Description: Three assistant coaches eating lunch at the U.W. football season preview given at a Madison Rotary Club luncheon. They are (left to right): Fred Marsh, Per...
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Rotary Football Preview Lunch

Date: 09 15 1957
Description: Freshman Coach Deral Teteak commenting to Athletic Director Ivan (Ivy) B. Williamson while Asstistant Coach LaVerne Van Dyke, seated between them, continue...
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Optimists International District Convention

Date: 05 22 1958
Description: Two Madison members holding up a welcoming sign for the district convention of Optimists International at Hotel Loraine. At left is Richard T. Ganon, regis...
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Lions Club Aids YWCA Day Camp

Date: 06 28 1960
Description: Donald Franklin, left, presenting a check for $400 to Mona Manson, as the club's contribution toward improving Camp Maria Olbrich, the YWCA day camp on Lak...
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Advertising Club of New York Golden Anniversary

Date: 1956
Description: Several men are seated at tables while one man stands at a podium. Behind him a banner declares the Golden Anniversary (1906-1956) of the Advertising Club ...

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