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Group Portrait of Swimmers

Date: 02 14 1953
Description: This may be a group portrait of men and women swimmers in costume swimming suits. They are sitting and standing on a stage. Some of them are holding signs ...
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Square Dancing

Date: 09 19 1953
Description: Slightly elevated view of Leonard and Mary Baumann, Harold and Hazel Woods and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Beckman square dancing in the gymnasium at Frank Allis Scho...
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Square Dancing

Date: 09 19 1953
Description: Harold and Hazel Woods and John and Alberta Lythjohan are shown square dancing in the gymnasium at Frank Allis School.
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Square Dancing

Date: 09 19 1953
Description: Bert and Emma Robar square dancing in the gymnasium at Frank Allis School. Other couples are dancing in the background.
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Gathering of Families at the Catholic Center

Date: 11 16 1953
Description: A group of nine children wearing costumes inside the entrance of the Catholic Center at 15 East Wilson Street.
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Four sorority sisters performing an Indian "war dance" on behalf of their candidate for prom queen, Doris Sickert from Wauwatosa, at the rally at the Memor...
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Madison Figure Skating Club Winter Party

Date: 01 21 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Figure Skating Club held their annual winter party at the Truax Field Arena. The event was organized on a circus theme. Lona Engelbe...
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Madison Figure Skating Club Winter Party

Date: 01 21 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Figure Skating Club held their annual winter party at the Truax Field Arena. The event was organized on a circus theme. Marie McNeil...
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Madison Figure Skating Club Winter Party

Date: 01 21 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Figure Skating Club held their annual winter party at the Truax Field Arena. The event was organized on a circus theme. Dorothy Maso...
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: Helen Hillner at a rehearsal for the PTA-sponsored production of "Ship Ahoy" put on to raise funds for underprivileged students at West High School.
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t...
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Madison Theatre Guild's Tenth Anniversary

Date: 08 1955
Description: Joseph Klein, Lois Klein and Marvin Foster (left to right) are examining a scrapbook depicting the first ten years of activity for the Madison Theatre Guil...
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Women's Club of Madison Presents "Man and His God"

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: The Madison Women's Club presents the original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Depicting the conversion of Izeyl to Buddhism (left ...
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Women's Club of Madison Presents "Man and His God"

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. A group from the First Congregational Church presents a G...
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Women's Club of Madison Presents "Man and His God"

Date: 04 15 1957
Description: Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Portraying a Japanese dancer in the play is Miss Ruth Tra...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged scenario of a lonely and isolated elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by a fireplace and spinning wheel. "Aunt Jennie" is portrayed by Margueri...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Shining ornaments and sprigs of pine and fir were used by many of the feminine guests for their Christmas hats for the party. Helen Plater and Elizabeth Mo...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Elsa Johnson looks up at a hat topped with a large wheeled carriage worn by Betty Berst. Johnson was style show chairman for 1957. Berst was the Maple Bluf...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Mrs. George W. Heath, 1957 social chairman of the woman's organization at Maple Bluff Country Club, is wearing a hat decorated with a large Christmas tree ...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Eleanor Nerdrum, program chairman for the Maple Bluff women's group in 1956-57, is wearing a hat richly decorated with a variety of Christmas tree ornament...

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