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Young Woman Sitting on "Polar Bear Chair"

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a young woman sitting on the "Polar Bear Chair," a concrete cast sculpture in Sid's front yard. She is wearing sunglasses, shorts and s...
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol building against Assembly Bill 620. Demonstrators holding flags and standards wait to enter the Capitol.
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol building against Assembly Bill 620. Demonstrators holding flags and standards wait to enter the Capitol.
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration at the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. Wisconsin State Representative Robb Kahl is standing in the center speaking ...
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. Two protestors hold a banner that reads: "Yo, WI-GOP-Thugs, Why Not 'Dev...
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Summer Weed Cleaning of Monona Bay

Date: 06 16 2015
Description: View from pier towards a young woman wearing sunglasses operating an aquatic weed harvester, moving in close to the pier and the rocky shoreline. Trees and...
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Mal-O-Dua

Date: 07 12 2015
Description: Four men are standing on a stage and playing instruments under a red and gray striped tent. Flowers are sitting in a vase at the front of the stage.
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Ray Charles

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Description: Ray Charles singing and playing piano during a performance.
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CapitolAires

Date: 06 26 1979
Description: Members of the CapitolAires, an all-female drum and bugle corps, either before or after a performance. Kim Zimmerman, center, is looking at the camera. Dru...
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Captain Harvey Black, in aviator sunglasses at the helm, skippers the rescue boat, "Isabel III," speeding towards a stranded sail boater on Lake Mendota. T...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Glenn Detman and John Nolin of the Sun Prairie 40 and 8 Voiture 688 giving each other a fist salute as the American Legion's fun and honor group winds up i...
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Dedication of Madison City-County Building

Date: 06 29 1957
Description: An image of the dedication event of the new City-County Building as reflected in a pair of sunglasses on one of the spectators. In the right lens, a police...
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Lifeguard Helps Open Madison Beaches for Summer

Date: 06 15 1957
Description: Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the ...
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Watching Statue "Wisconsin" Get Painted

Date: 08 03 1957
Description: A mother and her children looking up at the top of the Capitol dome as the statue "Wisconsin" gets painted. They are on a street corner by posts for traff...
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Armed Forces Day Air Show and Parade

Date: 05 17 1958
Description: The crowd at Truax Field watching the Armed Forces Day air show.
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Calf Delivered to Oscar Mayer by a Dogcatcher

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Police patrolman Sylvian Kindschi (left) and Dogcatcher William Hughes load a calf into the dogcatcher's truck on West Shore drive. The calf had fallen out...
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Maharajah Visits Madison

Date: 05 01 1959
Description: His Highness, the Maharajah of Mysore India, left, being greeted on arrival by Prof. A. Campbell Garnett, center, of the U.W. philosophy department. The pe...
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Training Mothers to Teach Swimming

Date: 07 19 1960
Description: At right, Berthaida Fairbanks, physical education and Red Cross instructor, is standing on the side of a swimming pool training the women in the pool how t...
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Mrs. Peter Berntsen Enjoys Tanning with Assistance from Alumnium Foil

Date: 02 28 1961
Description: Mrs. Peter Berntsen, 926 LeRoy Road, enjoys an outdoor tanning session aided by a wall of aluminum foil. Her son Erik (3) plays in front of her bundled up ...
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 26 1969
Description: Cub Scouts marching in a Memorial Day parade. Two scouts are holding flags, and spectators are in the background.

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