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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Three women at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the middle is Peg Bolger of the WHA staff...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Edwin Helman gets advice from Mrs. Romance Koopman about a script. On the wall behind them is a mural depicting three men important in the founding of stat...
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Madison Youth Center "The LOFT"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: Students painting a mural for the opening of "The LOFT," a high school activities center, at the YMCA. LOFT = Lots Of Fun Times. Left to right: Joan Wells,...
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WHA Studio

Date: 02 26 1945
Description: WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti...
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LOFT's New Year's Party

Date: 12 31 1946
Description: Five young people enjoying the LOFT's New Year's Eve party at the Community center are: (standing left to right) Burdick Myre, Paul Raymond, and Mary Ellen...
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Madison High School Drum Majorettes

Date: 02 05 1947
Description: Madison High School drum majorettes posing in their uniforms in front of a mural on a wall. Left to right: Betty Melvin, Central High School; Rebecca Wilso...
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Radio Station WHA Staff

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Dr. William H. Lighty, one of the guiding forces behind Radio Station WHA in its infancy, is shown at the lower left, duplicating the position he was in ba...
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Three High School Girls Thinking Spring

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Posing in front of a mural of Madison, three high school girls with tennis rackets symbolize the spirit of "spring fever." From left are Barbara Gilbert, 2...
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Longfellow School Play

Date: 03 25 1947
Description: Cast members in costume at Longfellow School play, "The Bear's Dream".
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Students sitting at desks in a classroom in Shorewood Hills Elementary School.
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Portrait of High School Girls

Date: 12 10 1947
Description: Jo Raimond, Central High School; Carolyn Zabrocki, East High School; and Jane Bandy, West High School, will sing as part of the triple trio at the Christma...
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Central High School Student Council

Date: 01 29 1948
Description: Officers of the Central High School Student Council posed in front of a mural: left to right are Donna Neu, secretary; Coleman Jackson, treasurer; Carl Car...
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Young Adult Club with Wishing Well

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Five members of the Young Adult Club dropping coins into a wishing well during a dance at the Community Center to aid the March of Dimes. Pictured left to ...
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John Steinhaus Children

Date: 12 24 1948
Description: John Steinhaus's children (a boy and a girl) sitting on Santa's lap.
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Teen-Agers Dating

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Walter Meanwell and his date, Mary Ann Pohle, playing gin rummy on a date. They both live in Shorewood Hills and attend Wisconsin High School.
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Teen-Agers Dating

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Dressed formally are Edgewood students Betty Roherty, wearing a dress and a corsage, and Bob Kessenich, wearing a suit and tie. They are posed in front of ...
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Dudgeon School Students and Bird Mural

Date: 04 13 1949
Description: Fourth grade Dudgeon School students looking at a bird mural they created for a Parent-Teachers Association program.
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Madison Youth Council Members

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Four members of the Madison Youth Council discuss teenage driving courses. From left are: Ken Kanouse, Phyllis Robinson, Maxentia Retzlaff, and Stefan Ande...
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Mural Map of Madison

Date: 12 02 1949
Description: Artist Joan Holm, daughter of John and Harriet Holm of 2318 Rugby Row, painting a mural map of the city of Madison on a wall in the business offices of Mad...

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