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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Norman Schandt, a member of the Shullsburg team, batting against the Potosi team in a baseball game at Badger Park. A crowd of spectators outside the fence...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Den Mother J. E. Maddrell carries a try of cupcakes with den chief assistant John Carrier who has a jug of grapeade. The Cub Scouts are (left to right): To...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Boy Scout John Carrier has earned many badges and awards and is a hero to the Cub Scouts admiring his badges. He is a student at Wisconsin High School. His...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: The scouts reach for their homemade cupcake desert after having eaten hot dogs and baked beans for their lunch. Shown (left to right) are: Paul Capadona, 1...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Gene Maddrell carries firewood for the fire pit where the scouts are building a fire to cook their lunch of hot dogs and buns with baked beans at Hoyt Park...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Kenneth Spangler prefers to eat by himself away from the picnic tables during the picnic for Cub Scout Pack #321, Den #6.
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Michael Smith swings a bat during a baseball game at a picnic for Cub Scout Pack #321, Den #6.
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Two cub scouts, pleasantly exhausted, relaxing on the grass during a Cub Scout pack picnic at Hoyt park.
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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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Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: Cadet Policeman Daniel Writt is shown receiving training and directing traffic at the State Street corner of Capitol Square, while in the foreground, Donal...
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Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: A police officer instructs two cadets on the operation of radar equipment and the proper way to talk to violators. The officer is holding a tuning fork nea...
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Madison Apartment Fire

Date: 02 19 1959
Description: Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street.
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Three zoo keepers move a 45-year-old, one-hundred-fifty pound alligator from its winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Dane County Sheriff Department Dog Training

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: An unidentified Dane County Sheriff Department employee training a police dog. The man and the dog are in a field, and a storage tank is near buildings in ...
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Baseball School

Date: 06 28 1960
Description: Kneeling at right is baseball scout, Emil Belich, showing Bill Hebl, Sun Prairie, how a catcher should scoop a ball during a session of the Phillies' baseb...
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Gas Blast Demolishes the Kellor's Store and Garage near Oregon

Date: 09 19 1960
Description: A gas explosion demolishes the Kellor's Store and Garage near Oregon. Oregon firemen and neighbors are shown trying to salvage shoes that were part of the ...
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Maple Bluff Police Marshall A.J. Taff Conducts Village Census

Date: 12 14 1960
Description: A.J. Taff, Maple Bluff police marshal, 6 Fuller Drive, conducts a one-man census of the village for the annual village directory. Taff has conducted the ce...
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X-mas Tree at the Dane County Jail

Date: 12 20 1960
Description: Deputies decorated a Christmas tree in the Dane County jail chapel and jail matron Anne Frazier played the chapel organ for prisoners meditating in the cha...
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Three Car Accident at 323 East Johnson Street and North Hancock Street

Date: 03 01 1961
Description: A three-car accident occurs at the corner of 323 East Johnson Street and North Hancock Street.

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