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Boating at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 11 14 1931
Description: University of Wisconsin coeds sitting in a boat surrounded by sand bags in front of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent women's dormitory. I...
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Blind Hitchhiker

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Leslie Zacharias, a blind hitchhiker, is shown standing with his thumb out. A University of Wisconsin junior, he has hitchhiked an estimated 8,000 miles in...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: Spectators are shown standing on the steps at the Capitol Square looking down State street at approaching U.W. ROTC marching units. The view includes the e...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral ...
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Donation Collection for Panty Raid Damage

Date: 05 22 1952
Description: A University of Wisconsin coed donating to the "Eighth to Riot, First to Repair" drive for funds to repair damage caused during a series of panty raids on ...
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Mapleleaf Parade

Date: 10 2013
Description: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse international students on parade with their national flags during the Mapleleaf Parade on 2nd Street, an Oktoberfest even...
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The Future Commerce Man

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Description: Three students, apparently in costume, are riding in an automobile outside the University of Wisconsin Armory or Red Gym with a sign over the exposed engin...
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Student Union Movement Protesting Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Young women and men holding up a banner reading: "Student Union Movement," a social justice group based out of Milwaukee Area Technical College. Other peop...
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MEChA de UW-Madison at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A large crowd of protesters standing on the street outside the Republican presidential debate. The group are mostly college age, although a young boy is st...
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Freedom Riders Boarding a Bus

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large group of Freedom Riders carrying food and blankets and boarding three buses to leave Madison bound for Selma, Alabama to ...
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Freedom Rider Protestors

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Two Universtiy students wave a Confederate flag on the steps of the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in protest of the 114 Freedom Riders boarding bu...
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Removal of Pedestrian Safety Islands on University Avenue

Date: 06 08 1957
Description: Pedestrian safety islands at University Avenue and Brooks Street were raised concrete islands (referred to as "meat-blocks") and are being removed to possi...
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Sorority Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of college women wearing name tags while standing on Langdon Street, waiting their turns to tour all the sorority houses hosting informal teas. It wa...
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Fraternity Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of men on Langdon Street either participating in Fraternity Rush or watching women participate in Sorority Rush.
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity members and friends ride the 33-ton used Sherman tank that the fraternity purchased from the Army at Camp McCoy, from the Milwauk...
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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 10 1958
Description: A group of U.W freshmen walking on campus. [The newspaper article identifies the street as Langdon Street, but this is Linden Drive with the Horticulture b...
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Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin cheerleaders riding in a convertible during the UW-Madison homecoming parade.
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Front Page of Connections

Date: 1969
Description: Front page of Connections. Features a photograph of a group of people and two dogs walking down State Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol in th...
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What to Wear on UW Campus

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Two Monona Grove high school graduates who are now freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, Dean Wichern and Carolyn Wurz, shown dressed to go to a footbal...
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Students for a Democratic Society Booth — Marquette University

Date: 10 22 1966
Description: A young man and woman are seated at a booth and speaking to one or more people who have their backs to the camera. Behind them is a sign that reads: "le bo...

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