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We Saw You . . . at YWCA Tea

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Beth Mitchell entertaining with a flute solo accompanied by Donna Ploog on piano as Mrs. Harold Kubly is listening to the music.
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We Saw You . . . at YWCA Tea

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: New officers of the University of Wisconsin YWCA gather at the group's tea. Shown seated (left to right) are Mrs. John Mayor, treasurer, and Mrs. John Kein...
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Rennebohm Drug Store Soda Fountain

Date: 05 25 1954
Description: People, mostly women, eating at the counter of Rennebohm Better Drug Store soda fountain. The Coronet Magazine display is also pictured.
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: City Hall Outing hostess, Alderwoman Ethel Brown (left) is shown laying out a picnic meal with help from Mrs. Norman Moll and Mrs. Lawrence McCormick. The ...
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Madison General Hospital Maternity Ward

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Bert and Elsie Dahlstrom looking at the beds for infants in one of the four neo-natal units. Becoming new parents, they are expecting a baby in the fall an...
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Maple Bluff Country Club Golf Lessons

Date: 07 09 1954
Description: Man squatting down pointing to a golf ball in a sandtrap at Maple Bluff Country Club, instructing a woman to how to hit it. There are several onlookers beh...
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University of Wisconsin Music Clinic

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Three clarinetists during a band practice at the University of Wisconsin Music Clinic. They are Joanne Wallner of Wisconsin Rapids, Beverly Babas of Algoma...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...
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Wisconsin Women's State Golf Finals

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Joyce Ziske, 1952 women's golf champion, lifts a short iron shot onto the green during the 42nd annual state tournament of the Wisconsin Women's Golf Assoc...
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Wisconsin Women's State Golf Finals

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Joyce Ziske, 1952 women's golf champion, shading her eyes while strolling toward the green at the Blackhawk Country Club. She is competing in the 42nd annu...
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Wisconsin Women's State Golf Finals

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: oyce Ziske, 1952 women's golf champion, celebrating sinking a putt at the Blackhawk Country Club. She is competing in the 42nd annual state tournament of t...
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Motor Boat on a Lake

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Boat owned by the dentist, Dr. Oliver Donkle, with people on board. There is an American flag by the stern.
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Paul Gottschalk and Alice Brussow (wife of William Brussow) are sitting at the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic, sharing reminiscences. A person (face ou...
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Early Settlers' Picnic

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy.
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Fashion Photograph

Date: 08 12 1954
Description: Fashion photo for Woldenberg's taken on the Edgewater Hotel Pier located on Lake Mendota at the end of Wisconsin Avenue. A woman in a striped dress, dark h...
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboy John Pertzborn gives his mother, Margaret Pertzborn, a goodbye hug before boarding the train for a week in the nation's cap...
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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Chief Warrant Officer Sam Gubner Retires

Date: 12 31 1954
Description: Standing in the back row, left to right, are Chief Warrant Officer Sam Gubner; James Shafer, a family friend and neighbor; and his son Mike, 14. Sitting in...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t...

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