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Group Portrait of Women

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of nineteen women standing and sitting behind a table, taken for Bess Weiner (?).
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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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 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 Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t...
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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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Ice Skater Trying Out New Skates

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Dave Halls is trying out new ice skates he received for Christmas at Tenney Park pond, which is used as a Madison outdoor rink in winter. With ankles wobbl...
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Santa Claus Getting Ready for his Journey

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: Man dressed as Santa Claus sitting in front of a fireplace in an armchair, lighting his pipe with a candle. His pom-pom hat is hanging over the back of the...
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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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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o...
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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Sadie Munson visiting with Margaret Rockney and her daughter, Karen, at the East Side Women's club banquet.
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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Banquet chairman Gwendolyn Hinrichs and daughter, Scherie Lynn, discuss the program with program chairman, Sadie Munson, at the East Side Women's club banq...
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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Helen Curry and her daughters, Sandra and Judy, sitting at a table at the East Side Women's club banquet at St. John's Lutheran church.
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East Side Women's Club Banquet

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Mothers and daughters looking over a menu at the East Side Women's club banquet at St. John's Lutheran church. Seated at the table are: Geraldine Morrison ...

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