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Blackhawk Ski Club Meet

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: View up hill towards Don West, of the host Blackhawk Ski Club, who has just left the jumping scaffold, competing in the Class C category. Spectators are al...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Bruce Slagg of Evanston, Illinois, and Jane Forman (Alpha Phi social chairman) posing sitting behind the trophy, which is an oversized jack and a tennis ba...
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: A man and a woman updating a large score board at 26th Annual Women's Western Open at the Maple Bluff Country Club sponsored by the Western Women's Golf As...
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Three Wisconsin State Journal carriers entered in a magazine subscription contest get a pep talk about getting subscriptions from Bob Neuendorf, a d...
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Signer of 1000th Member of Chamber of Commerce Wins Trip to New York City

Date: 05 03 1957
Description: For signing up the 1000th member of the Madison Chamber of Commerce, a Madison businessman and his wife will get an all-expense paid trip to New York City....
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Madison Drum & Bugle Corps Trip

Date: 08 22 1957
Description: Members of the Boy Scout Corps posing for a group portrait prior to leaving on a trip to Florida to compete in the VFW national competition. The Scouts are...
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International Skeeter Association Ice Boat Regatta

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Dave Roston (Madison) skippers "Flying Trump", a Skeeter ice boat (right) around a marker in the International Skeeter Association regatta on Lake Mendota....
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Dave Roston

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Dave Roston, ice-boat skipper, who won Saturday morning's race but finished eighth in the afternoon in the International Skeeter Association re...
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Bill Perrigo

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Bill Perrigo, ice-boat skipper from Pewaukee, who piloted his "Thunder Jet" ice boat to a second place finish in the morning race, and won the ...
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Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1958
Description: Three top-notch spellers and parents of two finalists are shown after the city spelling bee. Left to right: Cynthia Cottam, Midvale, second place; Marc Wil...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M...
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Annual Dahlia and Flower Show

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: State Supreme Court Justice George R. Currie poses with dahlias he will be exhibiting at the annual dahlia and flower show of the Badger State Dahlia Socie...
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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...
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Mallory Club Sail Boat Races on Lake Mendota

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: The yachts Ivanhoe (L), skippered by Philip L. Peoples, and Wannaboy (R), skippered by H. John Sangmeister, race during the Mallory Cup on La...
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Mallory Club Sail Boat Races on Lake Mendota

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: The yacht Confusion, skippered by Harry C. (Bud) Melges, Jr., Lake Geneva, and his crew, races during the Mallory Cup on Lake Mendota.
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Mallory Club Sail Boat Races on Lake Mendota

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: Crews of five yachts maneuver against the wind at the start of the opening race for the Mallory Cup on Lake Mendota. The number 6 boat, named Confusion<...
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International Skeeter Association Regatta

Date: 01 13 1961
Description: Iceboats on Lake Monona at the 18th annual International Skeeter Association regatta.
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International Skeeter Association Regatta

Date: 01 13 1961
Description: Two ice-boaters compare notes during the International Skeeter Association regatta on lake Monona. Bill Perrigo (left) talks with Jack Ripp of the host Fou...
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Mendota Yacht Club Sailboat Races on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 27 1964
Description: Nine sailboats gather on Lake Mendota searching for wind during the Mendota Yacht Club's racing series. Bill Mattison, Class C; Jim Henkel, Class C; and Jo...

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