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Children's Picnic at the Beach

Date: 1950
Description: Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach.
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Children at Junior Red Cross Picnic

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Children in line at the canteen at the Junior Red Cross picnic.
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Picnic in University Heights

Date: 1908
Description: Four girls are sitting on a hill in University Heights. The city of Madison is in the background.
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15...
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Thompson are having a picnic with their children, Charles (11) and...
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Madison Philharmonic Chorus Picnic

Date: 07 30 1952
Description: Six people are gathering around a picnic table at the Madison Philharmonic Chorus picnic supper. They are, left to right: Ruth Foster, president of the gro...
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Philharmonic Chorus Picnic

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: Four members of the Philharmonic Chorus at a picnic table at their annual picnic. Shown left to right are: Mrs. Ruth (Robert M.) Foster, Mrs. Catherine McC...
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Dane County Republican Picnic

Date: 09 05 1954
Description: State Senator Warren Knowles, (R-New Richmond), Republican-endorsed candidate for lieutenant governor (right), crouches to greet Tom and Bill Jasper, two y...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Children at Picnic

Date: 05 25 1940
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Mary Vultaggio sitting on a rock with two boys behind her who are clowning for the camera (Frank Ro...
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We Saw You . . . Guests of Bishop O'Connor

Date: 07 12 1959
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor hosts more than one thousand guests and members of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and their families for a chick...
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YWCA Girls Camp Indoors

Date: 11 02 1961
Description: Cold weather sent a YWCA camping experience indoors for the 49 girls attending. Those in line for camp-type food of wieners and baked beans include Annette...
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YWCA Girls Camp Indoors

Date: 11 02 1961
Description: Jennifer Jueds is shown enjoying milk and a hot dog as she relaxes on her "bed" in the gymnasium of the YWCA. She is one of 49 girls who spent 24 hours cam...
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Photographer's Picnic

Date: 1933
Description: Group portrait of men, women and children posing outdoors under the shade of trees next to a sign that reads "Photographers' Picnic."
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A Summer Sitting Room

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: An informal group is seated under an awning in the garden of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Picture...
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Fishing Outing

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Description: A group of men relax outdoors after fishing. Most are seated on the grass, while one man sits on and boat and another stands holding the day's catch. There...
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Republican Picnic at Burrows Park

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: Some of the 200 attendees at the hot dog stand in Burrows park for the picnic sponsored by the Dane county Republican Women and the Young Republicans. From...

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