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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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Men Having a Picnic

Date: 06 1927
Description: Edward J. Rickers with UW nightwatchman "Gramps," on a Lake Mendota outing. They are seated on the grass together with a picnic lunch and a campfire. There...
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German-American Wurst Roast

Date: 1913
Description: The Benedict Goldenberger family enjoying a wurst roast in the Madison vicinity. Ben Goldenberger is the leftmost standing man, he was a cooper and vinegar...
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Madison Picnic

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Description: A Goldenberger Family picnic in the Madison area. The woman on the far right is Olivia Goldenberger, who performed on the operatic stage as Olivia Monona. ...
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R. Glenn Weiss, Widower Raising Five Children

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: R. Glenn Weiss watches as his two oldest daughters, Caroline, 15, and Christine, 13, make sandwiches for a family picnic.
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Frolic at the Edward M. Fuller Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Group portrait of the Edward M. Fuller family and guests during a pause at a 'frolic' at the residence located east of the Yahara River. Part of the group ...
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Families Picnicking at Picnic Point

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Description: Stereograph of group portrait of family members, and others: Mrs. Bashford, Mrs. Fitch, Mrs. Proudfit, Mr. Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. McConnell, and some unidenti...

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