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| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the Christmas booklet from Truax Army Air Field, with a pinned-up drawing of a turkey perched on one leg on a butcher block ta... |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Features the dome with the "Wisconsin" statue replaced by a seated beekeeper wearing protective clothing, ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1961 |
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| Description: | YWCA Y-teens promote spring clean up time as Mayor declares "Clean Sweep Days." Y-Teens visit homes to take orders for the sale of brooms, whisk brooms, an... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o... |
| Date: | 07 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Stanley Hill, vice-president of the Male Garden Club of Madison, posing beside some flowers at Olbrich Park Botanical Gardens. |
| Date: | 07 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Judy Moore (right) watches intently as Gale Cnare snips off pieces of crepe paper to be used in decorating the vehicles for the children's parade in Conkli... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Mildred Ryerson, left, and Melvin Dykman mixing mortar for brick stoves and ovens as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruct... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | As part of a emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruction at Franklin Field, Eldred Heiser ladles soup from a large kettle to Isabelle Hy... |
| Date: | 11 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Two Chi Rho youth participate in "We'll Do It Day" to raise money for new furnishings for Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church which is under constructi... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler uses a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded throu... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A barn on the Quaker Oats farm at 4202 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | An unusual photograph of four Madison women working on decorations for the soiree of the Civic Opera Guild, taken through a glass-topped table. They are: L... |
| Date: | 06 08 1896 |
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| Description: | The Lucius Fairchild home at 302 Monona Avenue (later Martin Luther King Blvd.) seen from the back garden. Lush foliage surrounds the back door, where a br... |
| Date: | 07 20 1914 |
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| Description: | Several men are looking at the statue "Wisconsin" as she rests on a low scaffold on the roof of the West Wing. The statue is wrapped with rope and attached... |
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