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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Marian Wisniewski (Wisneski?), a certified flower show judge, inspects one of her flower arrangements.
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Irene Straus and Ellen Antoine, certified flower show judges, crouch while inspecting flowers in a garden.
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Building Trades Apprenticeship Banquet

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: During a banquet to honor 66 men who had completed building trade apprenticeship training, new journeyman Kenneth Volkmann, right, receives a certificate o...
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Social Security Staff Members Honored in Madison

Date: 05 15 1964
Description: Social Security district manager Sydney S. Miller (left) presents awards for outstanding work in public service to clerical staff members at the Madison So...
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Manley R. Showers Honored for Forty Years of Service at Borden Company

Date: 11 11 1965
Description: Manley R. Showers, 318 Glenway Street, is honored for forty years of service at the Madison Borden's Company. Showers began as a clerk in 1925 and retired ...
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Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
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Frances Ann Oiyotte Decorah with Certificate

Date: 1961
Description: Frances "Frenchie" Ann Oiyotte Decorah receiving her beauticians license at the age of 18 from the Green Bay Beauty School. The blond woman on the left is ...
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Patricia Williams

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: A young woman is smiling and holding up a certificate. Caption reads: "The top salesmen in the Junior Achievement sales contest showed her certificate prou...
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A.A. Rowley, State of Wisconsin Certificate

Date: 09 29 1870
Description: State of Wisconsin certificate for A.A. Rowley, signed by Lucius Fairchild, Governor, that appoints him as Second Lieutenant of the "Middleton Guards" with...
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Governor Vernon W. Thomson Named Honorary Chariman

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson (right) is presented with a certificate naming him honorary chairman of the Wisconsin Savings Bond Division of the U.S...
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Age and School Certificate: Parental Permission

Date: 09 08 1910
Description: Photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" completed by a mother giving her 13 years and 11 months old son permission to work. The form reads, in part: ...
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Cookout Celebration

Date: 07 07 1989
Description: Four men are standing and sitting at a picnic table while holding pieces of paper and talking. Behind them groups of people are relaxing. Caption reads: "C...
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Pomp and Circumstance

Date: 1977
Description: Grade school children are pretending their diplomas are binoculars in a graduation ceremony. They are wearing hand made robes, and caps with a pom pom inst...

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