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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Lloyd Hansen is acting as a sal...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth.
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it.
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist...
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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Madison Theatre Guild's Tenth Anniversary

Date: 08 1955
Description: Two women are sitting behind piles of printed bulletins and a typewriter, woring at addressing each one. Jane Gintz (right) was Madison Theatre Guild's box...
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Trousdal Methodists Burn Mortgage

Date: 10 1955
Description: Participants with lit candles in a mortgage-burning ceremony at Trousdal Methodist Church located at 1125 Vilas Avenue, include Rev. R.D. Robinson (pastor ...
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Margee Palldett, of 310 Ottawa Trail and a senior at West High School, shopping for her own clothes.
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Larry Bolen, of 1233 Jenifer Street and a senior at East High School, works after school at a local service garage to earn spending money.
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Madison Public Library Groundbreaking Ceremony

Date: 10 29 1963
Description: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg...
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Madison Newspapers Kids Kolumns

Date: 06 06 1957
Description: David Bloodgood takes out the first free want ad in the Madison Newspapers Kids Kolumn with assistance from Ann Sundt of the classified advertising departm...
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Jaycette Fashion Show

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: The Jaycettes are completing plans for their annual fashion show at the Memorial Union Theater. Mrs. Ben Prochaska is the general chairman of a group of el...

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