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Looking Through Car Interior

Date: 07 08 1956
Description: View from the interior of a car looking out of the passenger window. A woman is sitting on the passenger side of the car. A boy standing outside is looking...
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Middleton Woman with Her Doll Collection

Date: 12 06 1949
Description: Mrs. Otto Koberle of Middleton is standing next to her bookcase of dolls. Mrs. Koberle has collected between 200 and 300 dolls that fill the living room of...
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Foster Parents Week

Date: 06 18 1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Otto Markart, Victor, and Gloria, a typical foster parent family in Middleton. Governor Vernon Thomson declared June 23-29 as Foster Parents W...
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Ski Jumpers

Date: 01 1958
Description: Lyle Swenson, an 18 year old University of Wisconsin freshman from Westby, was the winner in the Junior division at the Blackhawk Ski Club's 11th annual ju...
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Blackhawk Ski Club Jumping Tournament

Date: 02 03 1956
Description: Frank Ticknor makes the long climb to the top of the ski jump during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk Ridge site.
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Dental Exams Mark the Start of the Middleton High School Football Practice Season

Date: 08 10 1961
Description: The start of the Middleton High School football practices includes dental examinations. Dr. E.C. Nehls examines Jim Teff's molars while Dave Wahler looks o...
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
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Book Signing Party at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: A man is looking at a copy of E.E. LeMasters' book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. The author is holding the b...
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Book Signing Party at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: Two men and a woman discussing E.E. LeMasters' book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, with the author, who is wearing a sport coat, at a book signing party ...
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Man Posing with a Book at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 04 1975
Description: Portrait of a man sitting behind the bar at the Club Tavern, posing with a copy of the book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, by E.E. LeMasters. Patrons are...
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Blackhawk Ski Club Meet

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: People watching Cato Vik, a Norwegian student at the University of Wisconsin, take Class A honors and set a new hill record of 157 feet in the ski jumping ...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Hallie Hohf instructing her father, Paul Hohf, in the proper adjustment of the sights on his rifle at a meeting in the Club's indoor shooting range.
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Jan Bruhn, 15, chatting with her grandfather, A.T. Bruhn, at the Club. He headed a Junior Rifle Club in Denmark in 1884-1886 at the age of 9.
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...

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