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Dedication of Statue of Liberty Replica

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: The Boy Scout color guard participates in the dedication of a miniature replica of the Statue of Liberty in Giddings Park, 944 Sherman Avenue at East Gorha...
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St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church

Date: 06 10 1951
Description: Members of the Ladies' Aid Society display a plate bearing a hand-painted image of St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church, Deerfield. The plate was painted by ...
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Hoover Boat Tour

Date: 08 11 1951
Description: A Hoover Boat Company boat, with fourteen Madison aldermen and their parties, is taken on a tour of Lakes Mendota and Monona and the Yahara River.
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Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Football Game

Date: 10 13 1951
Description: Robert "Tuffy" Young, freshman halfback from Green Bay, executes nifty footwork while picking up ten yards for Wisconsin in the second quarter.
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ROTC Color Guard

Date: 10 14 1951
Description: The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) color guard starts the halftime ceremony at the Wisconsin vs. Ohio State football game when all four branches of ...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio...
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Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo

Date: 1960
Description: Colorful locomotive pulling several cars full of children at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Although referred to as the "Kiddie Train," the caption ...
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Lindbergh Speech

Date: 08 22 1927
Description: Charles Lindbergh speaking to a crowd at a stadium.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Starting Ramp

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: The starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes ,is holding the checkered flag at the starting ramp of the Soap Box Derby on Gorham Street as two cars prepare to take off. ...
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Lucius Fairchild Post of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 05 30 1910
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the members of the Lucius Fairchild Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The man fourth from the left (with the light hat) wa...
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Regimental Reunion of the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1878
Description: Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a...
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Members of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 09 1888
Description: Group portrait of the members of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and their families, posing on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps during a reu...
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Madison Country Club's Women's Activities

Date: 05 13 1952
Description: Two women golfers on the 18th green at Nakoma Country Club. Holding the flag is Lora Krutz, women's golf chairman. Putting is Elynore Wegner, club women'...
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Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ...
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The Hotel Washington Fire

Date: 02 18 1996
Description: The Hotel Washington being destroyed by a fire on Feb. 18, 1996.
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Cub Scout Pack 329 from Emerson School lines up on Doty Street for the Memorial Day parade around Madison's Capitol Square. Monona Tire Company on the corn...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Members of the Women's Relief Corps scattered flowers on the waters of Lake Mendota in honor of Navy and Air Force dead as part of Memorial Day services in...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Eighty-two-year-old William N. Nichols holding a flag during Memorial Day services at the Wisconsin State Capitol. He is the son of a Union Civil War veter...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies.
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Virginia Terrace Neighborhood Celebration

Date: 07 04 1952
Description: View of the Virginia Terrace 4th of July neighborhood celebration. Judy Novick, left and Lindy Reuter, center, marching in the children's parade, and at ri...

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