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National Office Management Association Meeting

Date: 11 11 1953
Description: During the one meeting of the year when the Madison Chapter of the association invites commercial teachers to exchange ideas, Leonard Szudy, Mazomanie high...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: City Clerk A.W. Barels (left), City Attorney Harold Hanson, and Alderman Norman Moll are shown singing at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's picnic.
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman George Reger and Mayor George Forster (right) loading up their plates at the outing. Mayor Foster is dishing up food that is sitting behind an ena...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman Ivan Nestingen, Alderman Archie Simonson, and Alderman Paul Lorenz sharing a joke while holding plates of food at the Borchers Beach summer home o...
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New Pines Restaurant

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ...
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We Saw You . . . at the Optimist Meeting

Date: 08 23 1954
Description: Three past presidents of Madison Optimist clubs are shown at a dining table. Left to right are: Walter Blair, B.R. L'Hommedieu, and Jerry Coulter. Coulter ...
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We Saw You . . . at the Optimist Meeting

Date: 08 23 1954
Description: Three Optimists chatting over coffee (left to right): W.C. Matthews, Wesley West, and Joseph Melli.
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Gisholt employee Union dinner. Sitting at the table are (left to right): Charles Poole, former local union president; James Greene, local union community s...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Sitting at a table and laughing are Gisholt Union members Lloyd Bosben (right), a steward for Local 1404, and Carl Oldenburg, a former member of the grieva...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Stan Prideaux (right), president of Gisholt's Machinist Local Union 1404, is chatting with John Werner (from Milwaukee), State CIO Community Service direct...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Shown at the banquet table are two past presidents of Gisholt's local union: Charles Diehl and Harold Wegmiller. This was the first time since 1937 that al...
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: J.C. Sexton (left), who was in charge of printed programs for the event, is holding a cup and smiling as Austin Faulkner (right), manager of the Edgewater...
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Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club Luncheon

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Conversation after the luncheon of the Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club. Attendees shown are: Bellamy H. Seals, Shrine Club member; Vincent J. C...
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Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club Luncheon

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Three men visit at a table at the combined luncheon of the Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club. They are L.J. Larson, Shriner; Ed Schmitz, a knight...
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Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club Luncheon

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Three attendees at the combined luncheon of the Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine club listening to the guest speaker. They are Richard F. Baer, Knigh...
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Interrogating a Possible Burglary Suspect

Date: 02 01 1958
Description: Policeman (out of frame) interviewing a possible burglary suspect.

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