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Jumping Rope

Date: 04 09 1956
Description: Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope.
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Sleep Over Party

Date: 02 12 1956
Description: Young women talk about a dance and their dates while lounging on pushed-together twin beds in their pajamas.
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Students at a Refreshment Stand

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Seven boys and one teacher from Cherokee Heights School at the refreshment counter at a school dance. Four of the boys, Jerry Meulenberg, Douglas Green, Mi...
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Cherokee Heights School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: One chaperon and two students drinking sodas at a Cherokee Heights School Dance.
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Students at a Refreshment Counter

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: A group of students buying sodas at the refreshment counter at the Cherokee Heights School dance.
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Students at a High School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Four students, Kris Roisum, Karen Nelson, Charles Leveque, and Rick Radder, drinking sodas and chatting with Principal Emery Bainbridge at a Cherokee Heigh...
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Cherokee Heights School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Students singing and clapping while doing the Hokey-Pokey at the Cherokee Heights School dance. In the foreground are Linda Billington, Ann Herreid, Merry...
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Cherokee Heights School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Students dancing in a circle doing the Hokey-Pokey at the Cherokee Heights School dance. In the foreground are Linda Billington, Ann Herreid, Merry Bliss, ...
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Students Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Student couples dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance. Included in the foreground are Donna Marshall and Larry Meicher.
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Students Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Student couples dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance. Included in the foreground are Sue Wehrle and Robert Geppert.
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Monona Grove High School Students

Date: 12 10 1956
Description: Monona Grove High School students, David Thuesen and Gene Kleinsmith, making Christmas decorations and cards.
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Edgewood High School King & Queen

Date: 01 19 1956
Description: Portrait of Cletus Minter and Diane Barber, king and queen of Edgewood High School's Senior ball.
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West High School Girls' Curling Club

Date: 01 23 1956
Description: Two members of the West High School Girls' Curling Club demonstrate a sweeping technique. At left is Pat Thomson and right, Mary Stumpf.
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West High School Girls' Curling Club

Date: 01 23 1956
Description: Terry Thomas, left, a member of the West High School Girls' Curling Club, preparing to send a stone down a sheet at the Madison Curling Club. Waiting with ...
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West High School Girls' Curling Club

Date: 01 23 1956
Description: Four members of the West High School Girls' Curling Club holding their brooms. They are, from left: Mary La Duke, Sally Crownhart, Sally Trieloff, and Susi...
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Hazel Hargrove, freshman at Central High School, reads to her blind neighbor, Mrs. L.E. Grandison, as a Lenten expression of concern for others.
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 15 1956
Description: Gathering of the Senior Youth Fellowship of Bethany Methodist Church at a Sunday night meeting during Lent. Front row left to right: Deetje Joyce, Marian A...
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 15 1956
Description: Lake Edge Congregational Church Junior Choir members rehearse for a Sunday evening service during Lent. Left to right: Larry Thomas, Marilynn Schwan, and B...
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 15 1956
Description: Reverend Edmund Kinate of St. Joseph's Catholic Church gives ashes to Joan Licari, eighth grade pupil in his parish school, in preparation for the Lenten o...
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Madison Speed Skaters Display New Uniforms

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Members of the Madison Speed Skating club in their new Cardinal uniforms during a practice session at Vilas Park. The image shows 17 speed skaters posing i...

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