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| Date: | 12 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Triplets blowing out the candles of their birthday cake. |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 10 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Two West Junior High School eighth graders, Patty Radder and Jean Kelzenberg, pouring glasses of milk for their potluck club supper held at the Radder home... |
| Date: | 10 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Steven Presenza blowing out the candles on the cake at his sixth birthday party. Included are his two sisters, Lorna Presenza and Paula Presenza, as well a... |
| Date: | 12 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Paul Meyer and children Freddy, Maria, and Elena, 2141 Keyes Avenue, filling a pinata for Maria's fouth birthday party and also Christmas. |
| Date: | 10 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ... |
| Date: | 10 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Children leaning against a fence at the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo at the Washington Park Zoo. Several of the children are drinking... |
| Date: | 02 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Maennerchor, the oldest singing society in Wisconsin, standing around their accompanist, Mrs. Grace L. Snell, at the group's ninety-... |
| Date: | 02 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a portion of the crowd of 200 at the 95th birthday celebration dinner at the Turner hall. Those seated at the speakers' table are, left to... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of guests at Frank Lloyd Wright's 89th party in the courtyard of Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 05 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Miss Flora Mears, 116 East Gilman Street, cuts a birthday cake provided by the members of the Madison Art Guild of which she was an active member for many ... |
| Date: | 09 18 1950 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Joseph Leo Coughlin (right) celebrated his birthday. When asked his age Roundy responded in typical fashion, "What the heck, a dollar's only worth... |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Jane McIlquaham sitting in an armchair on her 100th birthday. A floral arrangement is on a table behind her. |
| Date: | 03 17 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert "Bob" Mahnke of 1155 Williamson Street admires a special birthday card signed by 127 of his fellow employees at the Gisholt Machine Company, where h... |
| Date: | 06 30 1951 |
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| Description: | A crowd of children surround a man with a birthday cake while celebrating the first anniversary of Winkie the elephant's arrival at Vilas Zoo. |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Louis Hirsig, celebrating his 75th birthday, stands with Santa Claus at a dinner for the employees of the Wolf, Kubly, and Hirsig Company at the Park Hotel... |
| Date: | 01 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of children at the birthday party of Linda Harley, age 5, at the home of her parents, Professor and Mrs. William G. (Jewel) Harley, at 349 Lakewoo... |
| Date: | 02 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Five Sea Scouts surprise former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry with a birthday cake on his eighty-fourth birthday. He has been pres... |
| Date: | 04 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles F. Kirwin in celebration of his 87th birthday. At the age of 87, Charles had been a resident of Madison for 52 years. He was an employe... |
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