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Student using Typewriter

Date: 01 17 1955
Description: Richard Jefferson completing his PhD thesis on a rented typewriter in the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin.
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Ralph A. McCance and L.H. Adolfson

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Ralph A. McCance, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin extension division, and on the right, L.H. Adolfson, Associate Director of the ex...
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Color Slide Show Judges

Date: 11 16 1950
Description: Three judges select the winning slides for the third annual color slide show held at the Community Center. Left to right are Aaron Bohrod, artist in reside...
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Social Afternoon Klub

Date: 01 18 1951
Description: A group of retired people play a game of canasta at the Social Afternoon Klub which is held weekly at the Madison Community Center. The Social Afternoon Kl...
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Carson Gulley

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: Carson Gulley, chef for UW dormitories, sitting at a table in front of a WIBA microphone. He is wearing a chef's hat and white uniform.
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Lola Bradford, Secretary

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Lola Bradford, of 933 Waban Hill, standing at a desk in an office. She is secretary and administrative assistant for Edwin B. Fred, University of Wisconsin...
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Ted Zillman

Date: 10 15 1954
Description: Portrait of Theodore Zillman sitting at his desk. Zillman is the University of Wisconsin Dean of men.
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University of Wisconsin Athletic Families

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Group portrait of University of Wisconsin swimming team member and army veteran John H. Middel, with his wife, Harriett, and their children, 3-year old Suz...
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Don Halverson

Date: 01 17 1957
Description: Don Halverson sitting by the fireplace in his home at 5022 Milward Drive that was designed to his specifications. He is the retired director of University ...
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Green Ram Theater Opening

Date: 07 03 1957
Description: Professor Fredrick Buerki, technical director of the Wisconsin Union theater and designer of the new playhouse's stage facilities, cleaning a table on stag...
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Rotary's International Night

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: Attendees at Rotary Club's International Night are shown chatting. They include, from left: David Grosshandler; Spiros Jannides (President of the U.W. Inte...
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Rural Teacher of the Year

Date: 11 03 1958
Description: Constance Elvehjem, McFarland, left, honored as the Rural Teacher of the Year, is shown with, left to right: her brother-in-law, University of Wisconsin Pr...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Isabel Hughes, Alice Kirkpatrick, Jeanette Thomas and Mrs. B.D. Craig visiting before the seventh Sigma Alpha Iota benefit musicale and tea. The event was ...
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Advance Registration for U.W. Freshmen

Date: 07 29 1959
Description: Raymond Mahoney, University of Wisconsin assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, gives advice on registration and curriculum to Joy Justesen, Sun Pr...
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Advance Registration for U.W. Freshmen

Date: 07 29 1959
Description: Joy Justesen of Sun Prairie poses in her room in the University's new dormitory, Chadbourne Hall, as she participates in the advance registration process f...
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Staff of Institute For Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities

Date: 1925
Description: Staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute For Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities sit together in a room in Sterling Hall....
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Chatting at the Panhellenic Ball in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union are sorority housemothers. Seated are Mrs. Ruth Gauchat, Mrs. Nyla Lowell, Mrs. Ke...
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University of Wisconsin Honor's Convocation

Date: 06 07 1959
Description: Jerome Silber, Milwaukee, honor student in law, waits for the procession for the Honors Convocation ceremony held in the University of Wisconsin Memorial U...
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Artist Aaron Bohrod Shows Off New Studio

Date: 07 08 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin Artist-in-Residence Aaron Bohrod shows his new studio at his English Tudor style home at 4811 Tonyawatha Trail overlooking Lake Mon...
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Wives of Soil Scientists

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Wives of soil scientists attending a get-acquainted tea at the home of UW President & Mrs. Conrad Elvehjem. Left to right: Mrs. Hans Winterkorn, Princeton,...

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