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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Dorothy Lutey shows her son Craig, age 9, how to swing a baseball bat. The photograph was taken for a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles perform...
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Nakoma Welfare League

Date: 05 26 1954
Description: Nakoma Welfare League members look on as a ceremony takes place to install new officers. The event took place outdoors at the Anderson home at 4014 Cheroke...
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Opti-Mrs. Club Officers

Date: 06 21 1954
Description: Officers of a new organization for wives of Optimist Club members, called the Opti-Mrs. Club.
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 06 28 1954
Description: Vera Ford standing in her formal garden at her residence at 500 Farwell Drive in Maple Bluff. The garden is included in the Attic Angel Garden Tour, an ann...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Missionary Tea

Date: 07 16 1954
Description: Mrs. Elleroy M. Smith (left), a Presbyterian missionary in China for more than 30 years, was guest of honor and speaker at a missionary tea given by the wo...
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Elm Tree Removal

Date: 08 03 1954
Description: An elm tree over 60 years old is being removed from between the houses at 308 North Hancock Street and 303 North Hamilton Street.
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Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Mrs. Terhall is relaxing in an easy chair in the den of her family's new home. Two picture windows, identical to the two on the front of the house, nearly ...
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Breezeway at 26 Walter Street

Date: 10 08 1954
Description: External view of the new breezeway at the Charles and Elaine Berigan home at 26 Walter Street.
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Emery Butterfield and Possible Cannonball

Date: 05 03 1955
Description: Emery Butterfield of 1614 Regent Street examines a heavy metal ball his wife found on their property, a one-time Civil War battlefield site. Experts doubt ...
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Jack L. Savidusky stands in his yard wearing a chef's hat and apron while barbecuing his specialty, "Mexican Barbecued Beef." His son Michael, 11, looks on...
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The Bauer's Risley Act

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Portrait of George and Peter Bauer, a father and son risley act. Risley is a form of tumbling by one individual while being juggled on the feet of another....
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Women's Civic Music Association

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Group portrait of officers of the new Women's Committee of the Madison Civic Music Association. Standing left to right: Viola A. Ward, Viola O. Fenske and ...
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Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
Description: Steps made from railroad ties are a feature at one of the homes in the Parade of Homes.
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Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
Description: One of the houses in the Parade of Homes was built with a carport. This located at 5610 Raymond Rd. The house was built by built by Hermann E. Postweiler ...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Chester L. "Grandpa" Gill cooking for his family at a backyard cookout two months after surgery that required several blood transfusions. Several members o...
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Madison House Fire

Date: 04 25 1960
Description: A crowd of onlookers is standing in front of a house at 2120 Waunona Way that was engulfed in fire. The incident was caused by a lightning strike of adjace...
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Hyde Brothers Raise Funds for the American Cancer Society

Date: 08 03 1960
Description: Three brothers raise $6.30 for the American Cancer Society at a carnival held in their backyard, located at 2721 Chamberlain Avenue. The boys, sons of Mr. ...
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We Saw You . . . at Tea for Foreign Women

Date: 07 09 1960
Description: The Madison branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom hold a tea at the home of UW Professor Karl Paul Link to observe the centennia...

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