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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Howard Schwartz (13) helps his brother Larry (9) climb aboard a flying saucer on top of the snow slide they built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Str...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) sliding down the homemade snow slide on a saucer in his front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street. He and his brother Howard (13) built the sl...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown adjusting the head scarf of Diane Beale.
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Storm Puts City on Emergency Footing

Date: 03 07 1959
Description: A group of winter-weary pedestrians are shown picking their way over a massive hump of snow which was plowed up against the curb after a two-day storm brou...
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Storm Puts City on Emergency Footing

Date: 03 07 1959
Description: Snow covered steps of the capitol building, as well as two cars covered with snow. Sign between the cars reads: "Use Ground Floor". The caption adds: "Well...
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Spring Snow

Date: 01 26 1959
Description: Two women, seen from behind, are using umbrellas while walking on a snowy sidewalk on the first block of East Main Street on the Capitol Square in Madison.
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Gambling Raid at Downtown Tavern

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue.
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Thin Ice on Lake Monona at Law Park Shoreline

Date: 04 14 1959
Description: Thin ice off the Law Park shoreline. The ice protruding from the shoreline is the residue of a huge pile of snow dumped along the shoreline by city snow re...
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Slayton Farmhouse

Date: 01 02 1962
Description: Winter view from the road towards the farmhouse and outbuildings of Charles and Victoria Slayton, parents of astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton. The farmstead...
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Leon Town Hall

Date: 01 02 1962
Description: Leon Town Hall at 20490 Wisconsin Highway 27, next to a house in Monroe County, in the winter with snow on the ground.
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Grand Jeté

Date: 1977
Description: A warmly dressed man is leaping off a curb and over a puddle of slush while crossing the street. There are automobiles in the background.
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Country Church

Date: 02 1979
Description: A cow looks for food in a snowy field in front of a church. The field had been planted with corn.

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