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Madison Street Sign Shop

Date: 02 15 1951
Description: Milton Kneebone, a member of the city street-marking crew, spray-paints street name signs.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church Groundbreaking

Date: 03 25 1951
Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the groundbreaking ceremony for Westminster Presbyterian Church at 4100 Nakoma Road. The homes across the street inclu...
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Madison Police Department Boat

Date: 04 27 1951
Description: Marine servicemen Al Reque and John Daugherty preparing one of Madison Police Department's two boats for emergency service on the city lakes, with police o...
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Madison's 1951 Softball Season Opening Game

Date: 05 07 1951
Description: George "Dad" Thompson, (left) and Matt Brossard sitting on a bench at Vilas Park Diamond #2 while watching the St James CYO vs. Hardy's softball game, whic...
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1951 Madison Softball Season Opening Game

Date: 05 07 1951
Description: Members of the Board of Realtors softball team gather around the bleachers during their opening game of the 1951 Madison softball season at Franklin Field....
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Welcoming Committee for Rear Admiral Roy T. Cowdrey

Date: 05 18 1951
Description: Rear Admiral and Mrs. Roy T. Cowdrey are welcomed by city, state and military officials at the airport. From left: Col. Collins Ferris, commanding officer ...
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Reedsburg Little League Baseball

Date: 06 15 1951
Description: A parade consisting of a band and baseball players is walking down Main Street to celebrate the opening day of Little League baseball in Reedsburg.
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Shorewood Hills Fourth of July Celebration

Date: 07 04 1951
Description: Children riding in a 1923 vintage fire truck at the Shorewood Hills Fourth of July celebration. Driver of the truck is Dobby Dotson and with him in the pa...
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McFarland Baseball Team

Date: 07 15 1951
Description: Group portrait of the McFarland baseball team, which won the Eastern section title in the Home Talent League for the seventh time in the last 12 years.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 07 18 1951
Description: Soap Box Derby Entrant, 11-year-old Johnny Huseboe, behind the wheel of a fire truck at No. 5 fire station, 2137 Atwood Avenue, along with four fire fighte...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: Derby cars are checked prior to the race at the Soap Box Derby Shellubrication Station at 140 and 144 East Gorham Street.
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: A pick-up truck from Hult's Capital Garage parks in front of 115 East Gorham Street with several derby car racers in the truck bed.
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Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
Description: Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 08 14 1951
Description: Police investigator Boyd Hustad examines the car which a Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lee, and two children were riding in when it struck the Runion c...
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Joe Cerny

Date: 09 13 1951
Description: Portrait of Joe Cerny, owner of Cerny's Super Sinclair Service Station at 202 North Hamilton Street, wearing his Sinclair Service Station uniform.
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: Governor Walter Kohler and Sonja Iverson, Cambridge High School drum majorette, standing on West Mifflin Street during the Cambridge scrap metal parade aro...
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Manchester Pigeon Hole Parking

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: The first commercial pigeon hole parking unit in the world was built for the Harry S. Manchester department store, behind Manchesters at the corner of Wisc...
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Operation Badger Air Force Recruits

Date: 12 06 1951
Description: Pvt. Tom Voigt, Ixonia (at right), one of forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits sworn in at Madison, shakes hands with his father, Ray Voigt (r...
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Women Protestors in a Judge's Office

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Six irate women drivers sit in the office of superior court judge Roy H. Proctor's office to protest his dismissal of a traffic charge against a male drive...
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Red Cross Blood Bank Drive

Date: 12 13 1951
Description: Dane County Highway Department employees line up to donate blood during the annual Red Cross blood bank drive. Left to right: James O'Connell, Russell Roed...

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