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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Emil Thomas taking his beagle, BeBe, on a leash with him to fish. Walking along the dirt shore of the pond at Tenney Park, the dog is pulling on the leash,...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Dale Jordan showing a fish, caught fishing with friends at Tenney Park.
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Harvey's Union Corners Service Station

Date: 04 08 1954
Description: Service call by Harvey's Standard Service Station to a woman with a flat tire, stranded in a neighborhood. Harvey's service truck has pulled up alongside t...
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Madison Housing Development at McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Roadert

Date: 05 22 1954
Description: Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel...
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Backyard Bloom of Pink Day Lilies

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Matt Berschens shows off blooming day lilies at their peak in his back yard at 17 North Mills Street. The lilies are planted in pedestal container pots and...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
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We Saw You . . . Swinging at the Park

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Tommy Eithum (of 754 W. Washington Avenue) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park.
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We Saw You . . . Swinging at the Park

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Mary Jane Caruso (of 780 Gwinnett Court) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park.
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We Saw You . . . Swinging at the Park

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Frank Caruso (of 780 Gwinnett Court) and Larry Bergman (of 744 Gwinnett Court) sharing a swing at Brittingham Park.
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Carnival for Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 24 1954
Description: Roundy is surrounded by children who put on and participated in a neighborhood carnival fund raiser held at the Marv Wellentin home at 210 Breese Terrace. ...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison neighborhood street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal. One house on this paper route has a front yard enclos...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison residential street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal on their paper route.
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Row of two-story houses along the newspaper route in a Madison neighborhood, where the carriers throw their papers to the doorstep.
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: After passing the intersection of Monroe and Regent Streets, the brakeman gets back on the train for the trip to Freeport on the Illinois Central Railroad.
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Roundy at David Dumphy Home Carnival

Date: 08 1955
Description: Roundy (Joseph Coughlin) posing with six boys who hosted a backyard carnival to raise $7 for "Roundy's Fun Fund" benefiting children with physical disabili...

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