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Lions Club Constitution Day Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Senator Alexander's wife visiting with Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon Thomson at the luncheon. An unidentified man is on the right, but not included in ...
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National Office Management Association Meeting

Date: 11 11 1953
Description: Left to right, Fred Broker, Ardis Barr & Mary Parker of the Madison Business College visiting during dinner at the one meeting of the year when the Madison...
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Maurer studying paintings at Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational school.
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: A.T. Flint taking a close look at one of the paintings at the Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational school.
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: William and Louise Hussey compare their program with one of the exhibited framed paintings at Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at t...
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: Elizabeth Harris chatting with Dr. Horace K. and Lucia Tenney at the Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational Sch...
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Madison Exchange Club Collection for Salvation Army

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Exchange Club with one of five bathtubs they will have around Madison to collect money for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets for ...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Stanley Beck, wife of a University of Wisconsin professor stricken with polio, talking with Marjorie Hagan, the city chairman of the National Foundati...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Co-chairmen for the Sun Prairie campaign confer at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They are Mrs. John McGonigle an...
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Madison Curling Club

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Two members of the Madison Curling Club during an intra-club competition. Norm Sonju (left) and Gil Bach survey shots made by members of their rinks. Bach,...
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Madison Curling Club

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: A member of the Madison Curling Club during an intra-club competition. Gloved curler, Jim Cottrell, is standing on the outer circle, pointing with his broo...
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Madison Curling Club

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Two members of the Madison Curling Club during an intra-club competition. Gloved curlers, L.W. Ketchum (left) and Rollie Black (right), show a "sweeping" t...
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Madison Curling Club

Date: 12 20 1953
Description: One member of the Madison Curling Club during an intra-club competition. Skip Bill Reese, broom in gloved left hand and right hand poised as if having just...
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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Kenneth Boller picks one tree from a stack to set up for display in the Boy Scouts Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps Christmas sale lot at the Gisholt Machin...
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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. Examining one of the tallest Ch...
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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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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: John and Eleanor Purcell enjoying the meal at the Rennebohm Drug Store annual Christmas party at the Catholic Community Center. The published photo was cro...
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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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Blackhawk Ski Club Meet

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: View up hill towards Don West, of the host Blackhawk Ski Club, who has just left the jumping scaffold, competing in the Class C category. Spectators are al...
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West Side Business Men's Association Meeting

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Freeman Fox greeting William D. Byrns, the first president of the West Side Business Men's Association, at the meeting to install 1954 officers at the Nako...

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