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Cub Scouts and Roundy Coughlin

Date: 06 06 1945
Description: Group of Cub Scouts presenting two checks to Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sports writer of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Gene Charmley and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Gene Charmley, boy scout, applying rouge to the pitch lay upon which he is about to begin polishing for an 8-inch lens used in the reflector type telescope...
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Jack Burkhalter and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Jack Burkhalter, nine-year old Cub Scout, grinding and polishing a lens for the telescope he is building. Jack may be the nation's youngest amateur telesco...
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Robert Burkhalter and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H...
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Lake Katrina at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Scenic view of Lake Katrina at Girl Scout Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Several girl scouts are below in the distance on a pier, and in the sh...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Four girl scouts and a camp counselor starting a fire in a camp fireplace as they start to prepare dinner at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pi...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Three girl scouts and the camp director chatting while sitting on a cot in a tent at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured left to right: Mar...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Girls scouts boating on Lake Katrina at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured pushing the rowboat is Mary Lou Steinike. In the rowboat from l...
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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Boy Scout Drum Majors

Date: 02 13 1947
Description: Five drum majors of the Four Lakes Council (Madison area) Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps. Left to right: Charles Harris, Charles Butler, James Berray, Stan...
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Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry and Three Cub Scouts

Date: 02 12 1947
Description: Because his birthday falls on the same date as Abraham Lincoln's, Chief Justice Marvin B. Bosenberry, honorary president for the Four Lakes Boy Scout Counc...
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Randall School Cub Scouts

Date: 02 20 1947
Description: Four Cub Scouts inspecting a hot dish at the first "Blue and Gold" Cub Scout banquet for Pack 302 at Randall School, 10 North Spooner Street. Left to right...
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Randall School Cub Scouts

Date: 02 20 1947
Description: Six den members of Cub Scout Pack 302 at the first "Blue and Gold" Cub Scout banquet at Randall School, 10 North Spooner Street. Left to right: Paul and Pe...
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Boy Scouts Honor Lincoln

Date: 02 11 1947
Description: Madison Boy Scouts and their leader pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue on Bascom Hill. Dick Feldt...
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Three Madison Scouts

Date: 05 21 1947
Description: Three Madison Scout Drum and Bugle Corps members plan for the World Jamboree in Moisson, France. George Koehler, "Ike" Edmunds, and Bob Gesteland, read a l...
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Harlan C. Nicholls and His Three Sons

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Harlan C. Nicholls, president of the Four Lakes Council of Boy Scouts, and his three sons, all of whom are involved in scouting. Pictured in front at the r...
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Eagle Scout Jerry Hansch

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: Jerry Hansch receiving his Eagle Scout badge, shown with his parents and one brother, and George Morris, the Four Lakes Council Field Commissioner. Jerry b...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm and Boy Scout Steve Clark, Jr,

Date: 02 11 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm accepting a report on the 1947 services of Wisconsin Boy Scouts from Steve Clark, Jr. (left) a member of Boy Scout Troop 1, Madiso...
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Marvin B. Rosenberry and Cub Scouts

Date: 02 12 1948
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry receiving a birthday cake from two Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes council in Lincoln Day ceremoni...
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Randall School Cub Scout Pack 302

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Cub Scouts from Den 5, Pack 302 at Randall School pictured at their annual Blue and Gold Banquet. Pictured left to right: Ed Vanderwall, Robert Kirschberge...

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