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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Howard Schwartz (13) helps his brother Larry (9) climb aboard a flying saucer on top of the snow slide they built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Str...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) sliding down the homemade snow slide on a saucer in his front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street. He and his brother Howard (13) built the sl...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown adjusting the head scarf of Diane Beale.
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Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly Investigation Before City Council Committee

Date: 02 06 1959
Description: A Madison City Council investigative committee explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under t...
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Groundbreaking for St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 03 02 1959
Description: Four men are holding plans for a multi-unit new church on the site for St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 5700 Pheasant Hill Road. Left to right: J...
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Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: Pat Parent and Vicki Vauk, members of Scout Mariner Ship No. 4, present a preview of the Girl Scout cookies to Annetta Evenson, a University of Wisconsin c...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Mrs. Niemczyk, wearing a safety sash, is shown conferring with a policeman. The original caption reads that he is "supervisor of the 49 school crossing gua...
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Storm Puts City on Emergency Footing

Date: 03 07 1959
Description: A group of winter-weary pedestrians are shown picking their way over a massive hump of snow which was plowed up against the curb after a two-day storm brou...
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Eleven-Month University School Year Proposal Reaction

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: This photograph accompanied a story about the student reaction to a proposal by Governor Gaylord Nelson for an 11-month school year at the University of Wi...
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Spring Snow

Date: 01 26 1959
Description: Two women, seen from behind, are using umbrellas while walking on a snowy sidewalk on the first block of East Main Street on the Capitol Square in Madison.
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Gambling Raid at Downtown Tavern

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue.
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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Rod Martin and Richard Gruber Meet at the State Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 21 1959
Description: Rod Martin, LaCrosse Logan High School basketball coach (L), and Richard Gruber, Acting Madison Police Chief, renew an old friendship at the state basketba...
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for County Hospital Wing

Date: 04 13 1959
Description: A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the new mental health wing of the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. Shown (L-R) are Bert Thompson, county bui...
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Wonderful World of Paperback Books

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: An aisle of paperback books in a Madison bookstore. Two women are standing in the aisle.
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Children Playing With Guns

Date: 03 30 1959
Description: Two girls with their hands up being 'pretend' robbed by ten little boys with cap-guns. They are between two closely spaced homes.
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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: John Michaelis, president of the Lancers Auto Club, is shown opening the car door for Carla Mueller. The purpose of the club is to uphold a good reputation...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Alice and Richard Welch, 4410 Bouldeer Terrace, are welcomed home with their new baby girl, Andrea, by their three sons, Jon (7), Daniel (5) and Stephen (3...
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Kiddie Carnival on Mohawk Drive

Date: 08 02 1959
Description: Six children who held a carnival at the residence of Mrs. Thelma Walker, at 4267 Mohawk Drive, where they raised $4.00 for the "Roundy's Fun Fund." Seated ...

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