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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Del Winters, working at a pouch rack, where mail is sorted prior to going out of the city. He is in the back of the United States Post Offic...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers (left to right): Robert Clark, Fred Boyd, and Donald O'Leary, are loading outgoing parcels and packages at the United States Post Office on ...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Eugene Hathaway, emptying a mail bag of letters onto a table for sorting crews at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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Madison Theatre Guild's Tenth Anniversary

Date: 08 1955
Description: Two women are sitting behind piles of printed bulletins and a typewriter, woring at addressing each one. Jane Gintz (right) was Madison Theatre Guild's box...
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Madison Holiday Decorations Lights Installed on Capital Square

Date: 11 23 1957
Description: City workers install holiday decorations and lights on light poles on the corner of South Carroll and W. Main Streets at the Capitol Square. A man is seen ...
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Inaurgation Day and Attorney General John Reynolds

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: Attorney General John Reynolds and Mrs. Reynolds receive congratulations at a reception during Governor Nelson's inauguration.
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Inauguration day with Lt. Governor Philleo Nash and Family

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: Family group portrait of (left to right): Lt. Governor Philleo Nash; Mrs. Nash; Nash's sister, Jean Nash, Wisconsin Rapids; and Mrs. Nash's mother, Mrs. He...
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Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for Wisconsin Bar Center

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: State Bar president R.E. Anderson and past president Alfred LaFrance participate in the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new Wisconsin Bar Center at 402...
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Inauguration of UW President Conrad A. Elvehjem

Date: 10 09 1958
Description: Wisconsin governor Vernon Thomson addresses the crowd during the inaugural ceremonies at the field house for Dr. Conrad A. Elvehjem as the thirteenth presi...
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Inauguration of U.W. President Conrad A. Elvehjem

Date: 10 09 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin Regent President Wilbur Renk presents a bound certificate of appointment as president of the university to Dr. Conrad A. Elvehjem d...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 11 16 1958
Description: Laverne Kirking proudly smiles at his youngest son, baby Gale, and shows him part of the holiday decorations in the farm home.
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Empty Stocking Club Christmas Toy Depot

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Madison Mayor Ivan Nestingen (R) trys out a pop-gun during his visit to the annual Empty Stocking Club's Christmas toy depot held at the Community Center. ...
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for County Hospital Wing

Date: 04 13 1959
Description: A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the new mental health wing of the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. Shown (L-R) are Bert Thompson, county bui...
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We Saw You . . . at Labor Day Event

Date: 09 05 1960
Description: More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Al Brickson...

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