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Wedding Day Car Problems

Date: 06 08 1963
Description: Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood.
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Linden Hill Grocery Store

Date: 06 19 1938
Description: Linden Hill Grocery Store, 36 South Fair Oaks Avenue. Anton "Tony" Lazarz and his wife Bernice, owners of the store, are sitting on the curb in the foregro...
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Masonic Commonwealth Lodge No. 325

Date: 06 24 1947
Description: Masonic Commonwealth Lodge No. 325 twenty-fifth anniversary dinner showing masons and their wives sitting at tables, and floral decorations on the speakers...
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Carson Gulley Christmas Card

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Description: Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas."
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Andy Pafko and His Wife Playing Shuffleboard

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Description: Andy Pafko, ballplayer for the Milwaukee Braves, and his wife playing shuffleboard. They are crouching in front of benches painted with advertising for Zol...
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L.C. and Daisy Bates with Men and KKK Cross

Date: 10 15 1956
Description: Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ...
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Gladiola Display

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: A large gladiola flower arrangement by Noweta Gardens standing on a table at the Central International Gladiolus Show at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso...
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Rag Onstad Curling Rink of Madison

Date: 01 04 1952
Description: Bud Leonhard, Mrs. Mildred Solheim, Rag Onstad, and Mrs. Esther Onstad, members of the Rag Onstad curling rink of Madison, posing at the second annual mixe...
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John Rogers Curling Rink of Portage

Date: 01 04 1952
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimball, members of the John Rogers curling rink of Portage, posing at the second annual mixed bonspiel spo...
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Donald Rock Wayside Park Dedication

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Vona Donald poses next to a newly dedicated plague. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park located along Highway 92 between Mt. Horeb and Mt. V...
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Med-Wives

Date: 01 17 1957
Description: Med-Wives, an organization composed of the wives of University of Wisconsin medical students, assemble Red Cross kits at the Dane County Red Cross Building...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M...
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University League Junior Division Annual Spring Dance

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: The annual spring dance of the junior division of the University League was held at Blackhawk Country Club. Shown are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brevik and Barb...
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Auto Buy Week

Date: 05 01 1958
Description: Four people posing in front of a "You Auto Buy Now" sign. Left to right, they are, Richard Young of Warner Young Co.; Kenneth Kimport, Kayser Motors; Julia...
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The Newlyweds

Date: 10 22 1949
Description: The newlyweds pose in front of Krueger's Empire Hotel in Theresa.
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Wedding Reception at the Hotel Retlaw

Date: 11 24 1955
Description: Grace and Dave Schommer enter the Hotel Retlaw for their wedding reception.
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Cutting the Cake

Date: 07 31 1972
Description: Les Beck and Marie Zuehlke wedding.
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The Newlyweds Depart

Date: 04 1980
Description: Shortly after their wedding at Saint Theresa Catholic Church, Eugene Bodden and his bride, Linda Johnson prepare to leave the church in a manure spreader.
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Leaving the Wedding

Date: 06 1981
Description: Eileen Wenninger and Mark Lifke ride off after their wedding at Saint Theresa's Catholic Church.

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