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Madison City Track Meet

Date: 05 07 1954
Description: Participants cross the finish line of the high hurdle race at the city track meet, held at the Madison East High School athletic field. Dean Hewitt of East...
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West High School Football Players

Date: 07 22 1956
Description: Dr. L . Riley McCormick examines the teeth of West High School football player Ray Denson. Football player Jim Horney and Dr. William Evans are on the righ...
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Fleet of Cars for Driver Education Program

Date: 06 17 1957
Description: John McDowell (left), supervisor of summer program for Madison public schools, and Milo Swanton, a member of the AAA advisory committee, stand in front of ...
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Wisconsin High School Football Team

Date: 09 09 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin High School Football Team.
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Nakoma Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1957
Description: Gathered at the punch bowl are several committee members and guests at a Christmas party at Nakoma School, given by the Nakoma Welfare League for Nakoma yo...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 11 1958
Description: Sitting at the table for the Nakoma Twelfth Night party at the Nakoma School are the co-chairmen Dr. Richard and Pauline Wixson and Dr. Gordon and Marjorie...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 11 1958
Description: The husbands of the "tribe chiefs" of the Nakoma Welfare League dressed in Native American feathers and blankets as a surprise feature at the Nakoma Twelth...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 11 1958
Description: Actors in a modernized version of "Little Red Riding Hood" include, from left, Dr. Harris E. Keel, Margaret Pike, Evelyn Kubly, Corrine Geisler, and Erin (...
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St. James School Groundbreaking

Date: 06 15 1958
Description: Rev. Louis Scheuring, pastor of St. James' Catholic Church, breaking ground for the new school after blessing the ground. Five altar boys assist Fr. Scheur...
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Orchard Ridge School

Date: 07 21 1958
Description: Alec McDonnell and Charles Brewer, two future students of the new Orchard Ridge Elementary School, pause on their bicycles to check the progress of the fir...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Royal trumpeters who heralded the evening's festivities at t...
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New St. James Grade School Opens

Date: 01 04 1959
Description: The American flag is raised on the flagpole of the new St. James Catholic grade school. The three safety patrol members raising the flag are (left to right...
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New St. James Grade School Opens

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: The American flag is raised on the flagpole in front of the new St.James Catholic grade school on St. James Court. More than 300 pupils stand for the flag ...
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We Saw You . . . on First Day of New Term

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Group of unidentified Hoyt School students stop their playing and chatting long enough to smile for the photographer during the first day of the new school...
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Wisconsin Postmasters' Management Conference

Date: 02 28 1960
Description: Key participants in the Wisconsin Postmaster's Management Conference are shown, left to right: Harold Van Buren (Hartland postmaster and secretary-treasure...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater Presents Tolstoy's "The First Distiller"

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc...
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Little League Baseball Players Leave for Milwaukee Braves-San Francisco Giants Game

Date: 08 13 1960
Description: More than 350 Little League baseball players are waiting in front of Monona Grove High School for the seven chartered buses which will take them to the Mil...
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Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Republican candidates for state office started a week-long campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, the birthplace of the GOP in 1854. Standing o...
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Kuehn for Governor Campaign

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Secretary of State Robert Zimmerman spoke at the brief program at the Little White Schoolhouse (also known as the Birthplace of the Republican Party) while...
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GOP Campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: A Republican campaign starts at the Little White Schoolhouse, also known as the Birthplace of the Republican Party. Philip Kuehn, Republican candidate for ...

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