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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington at the keyboard at a jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Ray Nance singing into a microphone at the Duke Ellington jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington Band percussionist, Dave Black, performing during a jazz big band concert at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington jazz big band performing at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. Pictured are clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and bassist Wendell Marshall...
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Judy Carlson, Wisconsin High, acts as timekeeper for the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Student John Wilkinson, Tomah High School, speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Steve Coughlin, Wisconsin High School, using his hands to emphasize a point while debating in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the Universit...
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Bobby Meath, U.W. Boxer

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Connie Parnell (of Somerset, Wisconsin) meeting Bobby Meath of the University of Wisconsin boxing team at the door after his match. Meath is exiting a door...
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University of Wisconsin YMCA

Date: 1954
Description: Night view of the front entrance of the University of Wisconsin YMCA at 306 North Brooks Street.
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John F. Kennedy at U.W. Fieldhouse

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: Democratic Presidential candidate John Kennedy speaking from a podium before a large crowd at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fieldhouse.
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24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: Warren Wooldridge conducts the 24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air concert held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by ...
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Removal of Pedestrian Safety Islands on University Avenue

Date: 06 08 1957
Description: Pedestrian safety islands at University Avenue and Brooks Street were raised concrete islands (referred to as "meat-blocks") and are being removed to possi...
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Dea Mae Ball in the State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Dea Mae Ball speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament for high school students held at Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Madison Drum & Bugle Corp

Date: 08 22 1957
Description: Family and friends waving goodbye to the Boy Scout Corps prior to their departure on a trip to Florida to compete in the VFW national competition. They are...
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U.W. Students Studying for Exams

Date: 01 16 1959
Description: Scene at the U.W. Memorial Library crowded with students studying, including one sleeping with his head resting on the table. Coats hanging in coat racks a...
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Proposed U.W. Building in Bascom Woods

Date: 01 16 1959
Description: Several people looking at a topographical model of Bascom Woods and Muir Knoll by the surrounding buildings between Elizabeth Waters Hall, the Carillon Tow...
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We Saw You . . . at Madison Libraries

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin student Richard Merkel (1925 West Lawn Avenue) conducts research work in a U.W. Memorial Library carrel off of the book stacks.
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Dedication of the New Wisconsin Center Building

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Howard I. Potter, Chicago, chairman of the board of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, speaking at the dedication of the new Wisconsin Center building...
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Dedication of the New Wisconsin Center Building

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Unveiling ceremony for three plaques honoring the men who were instrumental in the Wisconsin Center project. At left University of Wisconsin president E.B....
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Dedication of the New Wisconsin Center Building

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Looking at a model of the future gallery for the newly dedicated Wisconsin Center building on the University of Wisconsin campus are Aaron Bohrod, universi...

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