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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 11 20 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old poses with a man-sized shovel of soil during a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a new preschool. Behind him is a large steam shovel. |
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| Description: | Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments. |
| 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: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Reverend Charles R. Bell Jr., pastor of the First Baptist church, breaks ground for the new Baptist Church to be constructed at 518 North Franklin Avenue a... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin... |
| Date: | 06 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Four officials of the South Side Men's Club participate in groundbreaking for their new club house, Sunday, June 29, 1952. Shown left to right are: Tom Har... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new elementary school building on the Edgewood campus are left to right, foreground: Mother Evelyn Mot... |
| Date: | 05 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar... |
| Date: | 06 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Former Governor Oscar Rennebohm turns the first shovelful of earth for the new Eagles Hall to be built on the site of the old Marquette School at 1232 Jeni... |
| Date: | 04 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Four men with shovels turn over the first shovels full of earth at 611 Langdon Street, the site of the new Jewish student center. "Left to right are Rabbi ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1974 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin congressmen David Obey (left) and former congressman Alvin O'Konski breaking ground for a United States Forest Services genetics lab. After the c... |
| Date: | 05 02 1959 |
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| Description: | A groundbreaking ceremony for a new building for CUNA Mutual Insurance Society takes place at the corner of Mineral Point Road and Rosa Road. Left to right... |
| Date: | 11 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Individuals breaking ground for the new Sequoya branch of the Madison Public Library at the Midvale Plaza shopping center. The building is being constructe... |
| Date: | 08 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Mother Monica, superior of the convent and academy, turns over the first spadeful of ground during the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new motherhouse conv... |
| Date: | 05 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Breaking ground for the new Christ Presbyterian Church are John Wimberly, son of the pastor, and Miss Minnie Winifred Hastings, 420 S. Brooks Street, a lon... |
| Date: | 06 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Men hold shovels during the groundbreaking ceremony held for the new U.W. mathematics building. It will be located between Bascom Hall and Sterling Hall an... |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Gordon N. Johnsen, Madison General hospital administrator, turns a shovel of dirt at the ground-breaking ceremony for the addition of a new six-story wing.... |
| Date: | 05 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Dr. William S. Middleton, emeritus dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, turns the first shovelful at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Mi... |
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