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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: 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 Art Association Exhibit

Date: 10 15 1953
Description: Hostess Marian Stevens chats with Margaret Broadfoot and Doris Brobst at the preview of the Madison Art Association art exhibit in Scanlan Hall at the Voca...
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Madison Art Association Exhibit

Date: 10 15 1953
Description: George and Elizabeth Schlotthauer assisted at the preview reception for the Madison Art Association art exhibit in Scanlan Hall at the Vocational School. D...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: A barbershop quartet of U.W. students singing on behalf of prom queen candidate, Mary Gisvold of Chippewa Falls, at the rally in the Memorial Union Rathske...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Warren Olsen flipping over a roast in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: As preparation for speech class at the Madison Vocational School, Olga Toltzien is reading from The American Observer.
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Armanda Schmelzer expressing a thought during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: West High school students, Alice Ragatz and Roberta Caldwell, at a rehearsal for the PTA-sponsored production of "Ship Ahoy" put on to raise money for unde...
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: City Engineer John Thompson taking part in the rehearsal for the PTA-sponsored production of "Ship Ahoy" put on to raise money for underprivileged students...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Rebekah Cochran (center), who lived on 1118 Seminole Highway, is pointing to a print as Professor James Watrous (right) of the U.W. Art History Department ...
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Bobby Meath, University of Wisconsin Boxer

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Jim Bernd of New Richmond keeps Bobby Meath's shoulders loose as he heads for the ring. Meath is wearing a light-colored robe, head gear, and boxing gloves...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Profes...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Prom

Date: 08 06 1954
Description: Two couples attending the university summer prom at the Memorial Union. From left to right are: Bill Bramburg and Sue Roth (both from Oak Park, Illinois); ...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Intently watching the performance at the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Econ...
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Finger Painting Class at Nichols School

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Third-grade student Susan Pressentin (of 4805 Wallace Avenue) is working on finger painting project at Nichols School. She is wearing a Brownie uniform.

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