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R. Hornsby & Sons Catalog

Date: 12 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr...
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Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...
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Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" Drawing

Date: 02 03 1947
Description: Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition.
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Davis Campbell in Truck

Date: 01 03 1939
Description: Davis Campbell, Decatur Cartage Company's safe driver, leans out the driver's window of an International truck.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Second place spelling bee champion Dale Sorenson, left, receiving a $25 dollar check from Roy L. Matson, State Journal editor. Looking on are Dale's mother...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Larry Laverty of Mineral Point accepts a sports jacket as the prize for being the runner-up in Class B of the Madison Soap Box Derby. Presenting the jacket...
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Navy "E" Award Ceremony

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi...
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Disabled American Veterans (DAV)

Date: 03 19 1952
Description: The Wisconsin State Journal was awarded a citation for its "distinguished service in reporting the news of veterans" by the Madison DAV chapter. Her...
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Hazel Murphy Sullivan

Date: 04 27 1952
Description: Hazel Murphy Sullivan (left), editor of the Sun Prairie Star-Countryman and Wisconsin State Journal correspondent, holds the Writer's cup she...
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Prizes for WSJ Circulation Contest

Date: 03 29 1952
Description: Boy modeling jacket, one of 11 prizes in the Wisconsin State Journal circulation contest. The other prizes pictured on 10 negatives are: flashlight, axe & ...
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Daisy Bates Accepts a Gavel

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Description: Daisy Bates accepts a gavel from The Honorable Edward F. McGlaughlin, president of the Boston City Council. She had just spoken before the Council.
Historical Object

Houdini Award

Date: 1941
Description: The Houdini Award, an album, presented to Madison magician Ben Bergor by the Houdini Club of Wisconsin. Because Bergor won the award three years in success...
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Houdini Award

Date: 1941
Description: Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers Press Award Winners

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Group portrait of twelve Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys from southwestern Wisconsin who were honored with Inland Daily Press awards for their ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers Press Award Winners

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Group portrait of six Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys from Madison who were honored with Inland Daily Press Awards. They are wearing traditiona...
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Robert Doyle Honored by Red Arrow Club

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: For contributing to the morale of state troops in the South Pacific by his work as a war correspondent, Robert Doyle (right), a Milwaukee Journal re...
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Ann Landers at Ladies of the Press Breakfast

Date: 04 17 1959
Description: Advice columnist Ann Landers is shown with two writers who received awards at the Ladies of the Press breakfast. Standing left to right are: Ann Landers, M...
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Young Columbus Contest Winner

Date: 04 07 1960
Description: Contest winner George Byrne, surrounded by his family, wears an overcoat, white shirt, tie and fedora (hat) while holding a TWA travel bag. The original ca...
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Celebrating National Hospital Week

Date: 05 09 1960
Description: Roland Olson, who has worked at University Hospitals for 60 years, chats with Helen Crahen, second from left, and Ida Spiker, right, both of whom have work...
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Ethel Parker Wins Award

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Ethel Parker, center, holds the Writer's Cup which she was awarded for outstanding work in communications at the annual Ladies of the Press breakfast. Ethe...

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