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Madison Parochial Schools Band Percussion Section

Date: 02 04 1950
Description: Seven boys in the percussion section of the Madison parochial schools band practice on drums and cymbals at Edgewood High School.
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Madison Parochial Schools Band Trombone Section

Date: 02 04 1950
Description: Five boys practice playing trombones in the Madison parochial schools band at Edgewood High School.
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Sauk County Fair

Date: 1906
Description: Visitors to the Sauk County Fair walk by sideshow attractions and concession stands while others stand and converse. The "Grand Electric Palace," a "$10,0...
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Boy Scout Four Lakes Council Annual Dinner

Date: 02 28 1950
Description: Boy Scout - Four Lakes Council annual dinner head table. Left to right are: John A. Raymond, scout commissioner; Dr. Albert E. Iverson, national director o...
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Carnival Banners

Date: 1914
Description: The exterior of carnival banners with people gathered in front of them. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair.
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Street Carnival

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Description: Children gathered in front steps and on a platform with large painted banners at a street carnival, possibly the State Fair. There is also a stand with an ...
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Carnival Banners

Date: 
Description: A group of adults and children are gathered in front of carnival banners. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair.
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Carnival Tent

Date: 06 1908
Description: Crowd near the front of a side show tent with large banners.
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Grant County School Contest Winners

Date: 05 01 1914
Description: Unidentified children wearing ribbons on the lapels or collars pose on the lawn outside a brick building. Some of the children wear banners that say "Spell...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Zion Lutheran Church 50th Anniversary

Date: 07 30 1950
Description: The five surviving charter members of Zion Lutheran Church, 247 Division Street, stand in front of a banner at the picnic celebrating the church's 50th ann...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 05 1912
Description: Group of children pose in front of the entrance to a brick building. First row, reading from left to right: Willie Wieland, Millie Geyer, Florence, Wielan...
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"Down with McCarthyism"

Date: 02 22 1954
Description: Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz...
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Fur Workers Rally

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company.
Poster

The War Bonds You Hold Are Fighting Bonds!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 52, "Fighting Bonds." The poster features a service flag or banner with a blue star in the center. Red stripes emerge from the shadow o...
Poster

"He'll Be Home Sooner... Now You've Joined the WAVES"

Date: 1944
Description: WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr...
Poster

- "To Speed Our Boys Home.. Produce, Conserve. Share. Play Square with Food!"

Date: 1943
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 1, "Woman." The poster features a woman with a service flag or banner with a blue star in the center behind her. A small...
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Union Registration Effort

Date: 1950
Description: For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site.
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CIO Convention

Date: 11 21 1950
Description: Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel.

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