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Two Boys at Refreshment Counter

Date: 01 09 1956
Description: Rees Thomas and Billy Putnam at an ice skating party at the Truax Field clubhouse refreshment counter holding soda bottles.
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Students at a High School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Four students, Kris Roisum, Karen Nelson, Charles Leveque, and Rick Radder, drinking sodas and chatting with Principal Emery Bainbridge at a Cherokee Heigh...
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Gamma Phi Beta Graduates

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Four Gamma Phi Beta graduates relaxing after completing final exams. Left to right: Marion Grinde, DeForest, Betty Nelson, Neenah, Barbara Fletcher, Joliet...
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LOFT Opening Participants

Date: 11 18 1944
Description: Five boys gathered around the table at the opening of the LOFT youth center. Left to right: Gordon Findorff, Maple Bluff; Dick Sandersen, 919 Vilas Avenue;...
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Serving Cokes at the LOFT

Date: 11 18 1944
Description: Four girls serving cokes at the opening of the LOFT. Left to right: Mary Fahlberg, 1705 Jefferson Street; Dorothy Fox, 1705 Jefferson; Alice Harms, 202 N. ...
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Hankscraft Baby Bottle Warmer

Date: 10 1946
Description: Sketch of Hankscraft baby bottle warmer.
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Young Adult Club Anniversary Dance

Date: 03 05 1947
Description: Young Adult Club 1st Anniversary dance. Rodney Miller, Joe Ann Higgins, Elaine Roberts, and Tom Maloney are standing at the snack bar at the Community Cent...
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Woman Working in Laboratory

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: A woman in a laboratory coat working in a laboratory. (Possibily Jane Fred?).
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton...
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Wisconsin Central Airlines Dedication

Date: 08 03 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N...
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"Roundy" With Four Dells Boys

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: "Roundy" with four men from Wisconsin Dells holding milk bottles full of donated money they collected for "Roundys" Fun Fund. Left to right are "Roundy" C...
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Members of Madison Figure Skating Club

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: The warming room with its corner snack bar and music area at the Madison Figure Skating Club's new indoor skating arena at Truax Field. Jane Spencer, daug...
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Teen-Agers Dating

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Sharing a coke at a jukebox are Central High School students Jean Reynolds and Bob King.
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Charity Contribution Container in Sheriff's Office

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Sheriff Herman P. Kerl, and Sally Penfield, with the four-gallon glass bottle for collecting donations to the "State Journal" Empty Stocking club, the Kidd...
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Man with Bottle Collection

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: A man is standing next to shelves housing his bottle collection.
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Canada Dry Bottling Company Plant

Date: 08 19 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of the interior of the Canada Dry Bottling Company plant at 3313 University Avenue, showing the bottling line. One person is standin...
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Burch House

Date: 09 19 1949
Description: The knotty pine recreation room of Byron and Mary Burch house at 205 South Owen Drive. The room includes a bar with stools and a mirror in the shape of a s...
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Homer Cochrane inside Club Royal

Date: 12 24 1950
Description: Homer T. Cochrane, owner of the Club Royal at 112 E. Washington Avenue, is shown eying one of the empty cash registers in his tavern shortly after armed ba...
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Mendota Yacht Club Beachcombers Party

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: Sitting next to wash tubs filled with ice and bottles of soft drinks at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party are, left to right: Tony Stebbins, Ann Ba...
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Mendota Yacht Club Beachcombers Party

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: Enjoying a cold drink together are Frank Ross, Jr., left and David Schmitt. They are attending the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party at the Maple Bluff...

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