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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: City Hall Outing hostess, Alderwoman Ethel Brown (left) is shown laying out a picnic meal with help from Mrs. Norman Moll and Mrs. Lawrence McCormick. The ...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: City Clerk A.W. Barels (left), City Attorney Harold Hanson, and Alderman Norman Moll are shown singing at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's picnic.
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman George Reger and Mayor George Forster (right) loading up their plates at the outing. Mayor Foster is dishing up food that is sitting behind an ena...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman Ivan Nestingen, Alderman Archie Simonson, and Alderman Paul Lorenz sharing a joke while holding plates of food at the Borchers Beach summer home o...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Paul Gottschalk and Alice Brussow (wife of William Brussow) are sitting at the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic, sharing reminiscences. A person (face ou...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Early settler Anton Thomas, sitting on the right on the wooden bumper of an automobile, is holding his cane and smoking a pipe, and is talking with Robert ...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: John Philpot (standing with cane) asking Herman Woerpel if he'd put on a little weight! Looking on is Edward Duschek, sitting in the driver's seat of a car...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy.
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Parents and children sitting on a blanket on a lawn and looking down over the swimming pool, which is enclosed by a chain-link fence at Badger Park.
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Scenes at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: A family picnic at Badger Park includes the Mulcahy, Solberg, O'Neil and Foley families. All of the families are from Shullsburg. One mother is placing a l...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Wisconsin State Journal carriers Lloyd Briggs and Harold Joyce attacking a volley ball at Blue Mounds State Park. The partially obscured boy is unid...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Eight Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys around a picnic table enjoying root beer and apples in the shade of a grove. They are (left to right): Ri...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Michael Smith (9 years old) shouts to his fellow scouts that it is time for the picnic lunch. He is a member of Cub Scout Pack #321, Den #6 picnicking at H...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Den Mother J. E. Maddrell carries a try of cupcakes with den chief assistant John Carrier who has a jug of grapeade. The Cub Scouts are (left to right): To...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Scout Paul Capadona (1214 Drake Street) happily consumes a hot dog and bun. He is a member of Cub Scout Pack #321, Den #6 picnicking at Hoyt Park.
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Boy Scout John Carrier has earned many badges and awards and is a hero to the Cub Scouts admiring his badges. He is a student at Wisconsin High School. His...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: The scouts reach for their homemade cupcake desert after having eaten hot dogs and baked beans for their lunch. Shown (left to right) are: Paul Capadona, 1...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Gene Maddrell carries firewood for the fire pit where the scouts are building a fire to cook their lunch of hot dogs and buns with baked beans at Hoyt Park...

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