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Packed Travel Bag

Date: 07 08 1937
Description: Suitcase packed with manicure set, cosmetic case, notebook and clothes, taken for Mrs. Baker, a U.W. student.
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University of Wisconsin Boxing Team

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Preparing to depart by train for the forthcoming NCAA boxing meet are University of Wisconsin national boxing team defending champions and their coaching s...
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Nehru Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W...
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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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Two Madison Coeds Depart for College by Train

Date: 08 23 1950
Description: Two Madison sisters board a train to travel to out-of-state colleges. Mary Clare Koltes, left, is transfering from the University of Wisconsin to Rollins C...
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Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day.
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University of Wisconsin Varsity Crew Homecoming

Date: 06 18 1951
Description: Captain Duane Daentl is holding the Varsity Challenge Cup that the rowing crew won at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship races at Marietta...
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Off to the University

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Description: Sigurd Olson, posing proudly, as he leaves his Ashland home for study at the University of Wisconsin. A woman is standing in the doorway of a house behind ...
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American Field Service International Scholarship Program

Date: 06 16 1954
Description: Three Madison West High School students board a plane to spend the summer in Europe under the American Field Service International Scholarship Program. Lef...
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Professor Clay Daggett

Date: 01 18 1956
Description: Portrait of Clay Daggett, University of Wisconsin education professor who has also been a tour guide in many parts of the world.
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Young Columbus Contest Traveler

Date: 04 06 1960
Description: A man (Henry Derleth) wears an overcoat while posed on the middle of the boarding stairway attached to a partially visible passenger airliner. The original...
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Janesville Rotary Club Entertains University of Wisconsin, Beloit, and Milton College Foreign Students

Date: 02 11 1961
Description: Ninety-two foreign students attending the U.W., Beloit, and Milton Colleges representing 35 countries took buses to Janesville where they were guests of th...
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University of Wisconsin Student Exchange with University of Illinois

Date: 04 02 1965
Description: Five University of Wisconsin students boarding a bus for the University of Illinois with the first student exchange between the two Big 10 schools. 20 boys...
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Welcome to Madison and to the State Medical Society of Wisconsin : 330 East Lakeside Street, City Map, Medical Points of Interest

Date: 1953
Description: This map shows locations of State Medical Society, nine medical facilities, two University of Wisconsin buildings, four transportation centers, and five ho...
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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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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Checking her luggage for her trip next week to Quebec is Catherine du Vair. She will do graduate work at Laval University. She is a 1956 graduate of Marque...
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Madison Residents Look Forward to 1959

Date: 12 09 1958
Description: Karen Sherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orven B. Sherry, 4026 Euclid Avenue, and Jane Gillette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gillette, 913 Harrison St...
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Madison Safety Patrol Delegates Prepare to Leave for Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Madison's 31 delegates, representing Madison public and parochial schools, prepare to travel to the Annual National School of Safety patrol assembly in Was...

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