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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp...
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Christmas Party

Date: 12 14 1931
Description: Group portrait of Leona Wasley's card club's Christmas party, with Aldro Wasley dressed as Santa Claus holding a child.
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School Page Editors

Date: 10 14 1930
Description: Group portrait of nine children who were "School page" editors for the "Capital Times."
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Frog Jumping Contest

Date: 04 18 1944
Description: Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest.
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Grocery Store Checkout Counter

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti...
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Student Couple Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: A young boy and girl dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
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Romance Koopman and Bobby Koopman

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w...
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Mrs. Donald W. (Ruth Wilson) Rindt and Sons

Date: 07 10 1945
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Donald W. (Ruth Wilson) Rindt and sons, Jon (3) and Brian (1). She's was staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.N. Wilson, prior to join...
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Longfellow School Third and Fourth Graders

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine.
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Four Generation Family Portrait

Date: 05 01 1949
Description: Eighty-one year old Mrs. William Morrisey holds her two great-grandsons, Frederick George Joachim, Jr. (left), and John Wolfe. Behind her is her daughter, ...
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Four Generations of Family

Date: 10 21 1949
Description: A reunion of four generations of the family of Minnie Miller, Long Beach, California, who is shown seated, holding her infant great-granddaughter, Terry An...
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Ice Slide at Truax Field

Date: 02 23 1950
Description: Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background.
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Governor Rennebohm Receiving an American Legion Poppy

Date: 05 10 1950
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm receiving the first poppy of the year from Patty Coyne, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.J. Coyne and Phillip Thornton, son of Mr. and M...
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 03 1950
Description: Portrait of Mrs. O.K. (Niederer) Hunsaker and her two children, William, 9 months, and Marilyn Kay, 2 years.
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Marquette School

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Bob West has discovered that life in the underground ant colony consists of building homes, storing food and caring for babies. The ant colony has been a p...
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Mrs. Robert H. Linn and Children

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Mrs. Frances Mae Linn with her two sons, Robert Jr. and Steven Baker, before they left to join Lieutenant Linn who is serving in the U.S. Air Force in the ...
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Father's Day

Date: 06 10 1952
Description: Wilbur J. Schmidt, 1221 E. Johnson Street, watches his two year old daughter, Linda play with her toy piano. The photograph was part of a newspaper feature...
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Madison Lutheran School Enrollment

Date: 09 04 1952
Description: Three of the 185 pupils who registered at Madison Lutheran school are shown with Esther Buehholz (right). Left to right are Patricia Hagen, 12, Dickie Ba...
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Raspberry Pickers

Date: 11 03 1953
Description: Myra Swingle and her two-year-old son, Lanny, picking raspberries together at their home at 2637 Hoard Street.

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