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Smashed Store Windows on State Street

Date: 07 16 1958
Description: Glass workers repair damage to 14 store windows on State Street after John O'Connor smashed them during the night and stole items from Goodman's Jewelry St...
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Madison Labor Temple

Date: 07 16 1958
Description: The new Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street, nearing completion.
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1957
Description: The Edgerton Pat Boone fan club's major project is to repair used toys, games, and books for the Martin Luther Children's home in Stoughton. Club president...
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Governor Vernon W. Thomson Receives Membership in the Northwest Airlines' Top Flight Club

Date: 07 17 1958
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson (left) receives a membership card, and citation, in the Northwest Airlines Top Flight Club for his support of air transportation...
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Experimental Plastic Traffic Strips on Square

Date: 07 24 1958
Description: Elevated view showing newly applied, experimental, white plastic traffic strips installed on the streets around the Capitol Square. The automobiles are tra...
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Hoyt School Addition

Date: 07 25 1958
Description: View towards the exterior of a two-story addition to Hoyt School (on Regent Street near Hoyt Park). There are mounds of ground rubble near trees, and a car...
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University Campus Shoreline Vista

Date: 07 11 1958
Description: A view of Lake Mendota from the end of Park street. F.O. Leiser, general chairman of the class of 1902 has raised the issue of maintaining the lakeshore be...
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Vernon County Homemakers Group Visit the Governor's Mansion in Maple Bluff

Date: 07 30 1958
Description: 295 members of the Vernon County Homemakers group boarded buses in Viroqua to travel to the Wisconsin Governor's Mansion in Maple Bluff. The women are show...
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Site of New St. James Catholic School

Date: 08 16 1958
Description: Construction work begins for the new school next to St. James Catholic Church. The two-story structure will include 12 classrooms and a gymnasium.
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New Catholic Parish Center on Main Street

Date: 08 20 1958
Description: The new Catholic Parish Center adjoining the newly redecorated St. Patrick's Church on east Main street. The two-story building will contain rectory office...
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City of Madison Merit Award Presentation

Date: 08 28 1958
Description: Madison traffic engineer John H. Bunch, left, displays his check as a merit award for suggesting the installation of an automatic warning for tall trucks a...
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Painting Norbert Anderson's Home

Date: 08 16 1958
Description: Norbert Anderson's friends who pitched in to help paint his home at 1522 Jefferson Street. Checking out their painting job are, from left; Joe Frye; Lorin ...
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New IBM Machines at North Western Railroad Yard

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: R. E. Gilbert posing behind a desk-sized IBM machine, known as a integrated-data processor. Gilbert holds in his hand a punched paper roll containing up-to...
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New IBM Machines at North Western Railroad Yard

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: North Western railroad yard employee John Eith is shown with punch cards in hand by a new IBM "accounting apparatus". He is "awaiting information from one ...
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State Office Building Addition

Date: 10 02 1958
Description: View across Lake Monona towards the third and final wing to the Wilson Street state office building. Automobiles are parked along the shoreline.
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Family Visits from New Milford, Connecticut

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: The Charles Iltis family visiting his parents, Professor and Mrs. Leon L. Iltis at their Nakoma road home.
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Fitchburg Traffic on Highway 14

Date: 08 30 1958
Description: Telephoto shot of Labor Day Sunday traffic in Fitchburg on a two lane highway 14 near Clayton Road. Nineteen cars are north bound. Four cars are south bou...
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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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Halloween Fund Drive to Help UNICEF

Date: 10 21 1958
Description: Madison children call on their neighbors and friends to contribute funds for the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF). Shown collecting in a neighbor...
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Policeman Duane Haralson Prepares for Annual Madison Police Department Auction

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Madison policeman Duane Haralson prepares items for the annual police department auction to be held in the basement of the City-County Building.

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