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| Date: | 02 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Lay officers and church dignitaries listen as Charles Pollock, senior warden of Grace Episcopal Church parish, read letters of donation and endowment at sp... |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Unveiling ceremony, in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Two American flags and a Wisconsin pennant hang from a wire abov... |
| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | Unveiling ceremony, in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Two American flags and a Wisconsin pennant hang from a wire abov... |
| Date: | 02 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Rev. E.H. Schmidt, Milwaukee, preaching the dedication sermon at Mt. Olive Evangelical Lutheran Church on the corner of Mineral Point Road and Westmorland ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor presents the medal of Benemerenti to Frank Blied, a member of a pioneer Madison family. The medal, awarded by Pope Pius XII, is ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1949 |
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| Description: | The Reverand Harold Huff (left), pastor; Bishop H. Clifford Northcott (center), and Reverand W. Ross Connor (right) leading a special morning service to de... |
| Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 36 nursing students who received their caps in a ceremony at Madison General Hospital. |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of senior students from Central High School plan some of the school's special commencement activities. Left to right: Roger Lewis, Harvin Fruth, Ge... |
| Date: | 04 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of the East Side Youth Concil recently inaugurated in ceremonies at the East Side Business Men's clubhouse. Front row, left to right: Lois Ann Br... |
| Date: | 06 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Attorney General Thomas E. Fairchild gives the keynote address at the flag day ceremony at the Madison Elks Lodge, 120 Monona Drive. At the left is Kenneth... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is crowned Madison Soap Box Derby Princess by beauty queen Jackie Stafford. Looking on at right is Lee Baron of Baron's ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Officers of Credit Union National Association, Inc. (CUNA) and city and state officials at the ground breaking ceremony for a new international credit unio... |
| Date: | 08 09 1949 |
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| Description: | State and University of Wisconsin officials join in ground-breaking ceremonies for additions to the Wisconsin General hospital. left to right: Governor Osc... |
| Date: | 08 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm uses a chain saw to make a cut on one of the trees in front of the Wisconsin General hospital. The trees must be removed to make r... |
| Date: | 09 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of newly sworn-in Justice of the Supreme Court, Timothy Brown, at left, with Governor Oscar Rennebohm, center, and Chief Justice Marvin B. R... |
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Dedication of a drinking fountain at Central High School as a memorial to Pfc. James Hammond, son of Howard and Regina Hammond, 114 North Bassett Street. H... |
| Date: | 10 30 1949 |
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| Description: | As the cornerstone of Beth Israel Center was lowered into place, representatives of the oldest Madison Jewish congregation participated in the ceremony. Th... |
| Date: | 11 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Posed in the chapel of the new Blessed Sacrament Convent are, (left to right): Reverend John B. Schneider, pastor of Blessed Sacrament church; Reverend Joh... |
| Date: | 11 12 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin senior law students take part in the tradition of tossing their canes over the south goal post crossbar at Camp Randall stadium. Th... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Five members of various YWCA organizations inspecting decorations to be used in the traditional "Hanging of the Greens" at the YWCA. Seated from left to ri... |
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