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Three Men with $5000 Check

Date: 03 30 1936
Description: Three men displaying $5000 check issued by U.S. Treasury Dept. to Richland Cooperative Electric Association for Rural Electrification Program.
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Mayor Law Buying V.F.W. Poppy

Date: 05 10 1933
Description: Mayor James R. Law buying V.F.W. poppy from Miss Jane Elizabeth Ward.
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West High School Radio Club

Date: 10 31 1952
Description: Two members of the West High School radio club, Alan Frees and Bill Reeve, operating the club's "ham" station. Observing the young men are Henry Lugg, spo...
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USO Club Tea Guests

Date: 04 13 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ...
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Polio Survey

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the Na...
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Madison Community Chest Workers

Date: 10 07 1946
Description: Madison men in charge of Community Chest campaign for small business firms looking at a city map. Sitting left to right: Leo Kronenberg, chairman of the Ea...
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Ham Radio Operator

Date: 08 19 1948
Description: Ross Hansch, 1608 Hoyt Street, Ham Radio Operator (W9RBI), Wisconsin's first member of the DX Century Club. The club is limited to amateur radio operators ...
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Shorewood Hills Community League

Date: 09 22 1948
Description: Mrs. George (Frances) Burrell, 1509 Wood Lane, at left, and Mrs. Charles L. (Myrtle) Fluke, 3003 Harvard Drive, at right, inspecting a map of the village o...
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Women Volunteers for the Community Chest

Date: 09 04 1948
Description: Mrs. Jerome H. (Helen) Coe and Mrs. Wayne K. Loveland, who are two members of the Madison Community Chest campaign headquarters staff, shown at the office ...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: League of Women Voters members Elizabeth Antonius (left), 221 South Owen Drive, and Josephine Jenkins, 2805 Sylvan Avenue, study a map in preparation for a...
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Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 05 1951
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Ruby Kepler of Central High School and Dorothy Lacey of Edgewood High School, looking at a map. They are being trained as ...
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Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 05 1951
Description: Three volunteers of the University of Wisconsin College Unit complete Red Cross clerical work. They are, left to right, Jean Eggebrecht, Wausau, Jennie Stu...
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Crime Prevention Week Declaration

Date: 02 15 1952
Description: Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati...
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Schwoegler Receives Trophy

Date: 10 27 1953
Description: Gordon Roseleip, Darlington, state commander of the American Legion, presents a trophy to Wesley J. Schwoegler, Dane county veterans' service officer, citi...
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Raúl Castro with Map, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro sitting next to a small map of Oriente Province taped to the wall during the Cuban Revolution. The wall is bead-board and Castro is wearing a b...
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Raúl Castro and Map, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro sitting at a desk in front of a map of Oriente Province taped to the wall. He is wearing a beret and holding a cigarette in his hands.
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Explorer Scouts Prepare for Disasters

Date: 05 07 1956
Description: As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, phone calls are made to the crews of Explorer Post 503. Phoning are Gene Tschida (left), Exp...
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National Civil Defense Week

Date: 08 27 1956
Description: Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl...
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Donations to Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 11 02 1957
Description: Dena Klinger of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority presents a check to Joseph R. (Roundy) Coughlin as John Sommers of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity looks on. The mone...
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Madison Business Protective Association Officials

Date: 12 08 1958
Description: The newly-formed Madison Business Protective Association, some in uniform and some plainclothed, will move about through commercial areas to check on poten...

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