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"Hoppy" Corcoran and Roundy Coughlin

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Four-year-old baseball enthusiast "Hoppy " Corcoran, center, enjoys a laugh with Wisconsin State Journal columnist Roundy Coughlin, right. Looking o...
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Young Sports Enthusiast "Hoppy" Corcoran

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Four-year-old baseball enthusiast Tommy "Hoppy" Corcoran is pictured in his baseball uniform. "Hoppy," named for one of his heroes, Hopalong Cassidy, has a...
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Catherine Corscot Antique Sale

Date: 08 04 1952
Description: Mrs. Frank Vaughn holding a cut work tablecloth at the sale of the late Miss Catherine Corscot's antique collection. It was held in the Guild Hall in Grace...
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Catherine Corscot Antique Sale

Date: 08 04 1952
Description: Mrs. Earl (Josephine) Wheeler holds an old lusterware pitcher from the antique collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot.
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Jeanette Kincaid Playing Card Collection

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Mrs. Charles (Jeanette) Kincaid of 2122 Vilas Avenue is shown with a display of some of her playing card collection. Mrs. Kincaid has collected more than 4...
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Bacon — License Plate Collection

Date: 2004
Description: Julie Bacon's husband, Stuart, has a license plate collection on the wall in the barn.
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Mrs. Ernest B. Steen of 2205 Lakeland Avenue, wife of new pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, demonstrates a Christmas custom by displaying her bell collect...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Audrey Walsh arranges an heirloom crystal candelabra in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She plans to serve Swedish meatba...
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Mortimer Levitan is shown with his collection of herbs, spices and salts. He is also a cookbook collector.
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Shoe Collection

Date: 11 13 1956
Description: Garnet Baker stands beside part of the shoe collection she brought to the hobby show of the East Side Women's Club.
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Eunice Quinn Button Collection

Date: 11 06 1956
Description: Eunice Quinn poses with her button collection and trophies.
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Sue Carolyn Renk

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Sue Carolyn Renk examines a piece of crystal glassware as her mother, Mrs. Wilbur Renk looks on. She is preparing for her wedding and her graduation.
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Doris Withrow Enters Dolls in National Event for Second Time

Date: 09 24 1958
Description: Doris Withrow bids farewell to the dolls which she has dressed for her entry in this year's National Doll Dressing Institute competition held in cooperatio...
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Ralph Callies' Political Button Collection

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Ralph Callies pointing to one of the thousands of political buttons in his collection. He is a member of the American Political Items Collectors.
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Two visitors are looking over a specimen pulled from the stamp collection album of T. Leslie Welch at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YMCA. They...
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Club treasurer, Charles P. Ingold, sitting among a crowd at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YMCA. Behind him, Edgar Phillips is showing a philat...
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Dick Thomas, sitting in the crowd of philatelic collectors and enthusiasts, scanning an exhibit at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YMCA. The man...
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Milton Geier, smoking a cigarette, is examining a stamp with a magnifier, while W.L. Millar is looking on, at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YM...
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Arthur Schwebs, with his daughter, Karen, and son, Roger, are looking at a philatelic exhibit in an album at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YMC...
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Harold Myhre, Stamp Collector

Date: 03 13 1958
Description: Harold Myhre, a philatelist and head of the Madison Stamp Club, with a display of some of his valuable stamps that are framed.

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