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Students at a Refreshment Stand

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Seven boys and one teacher from Cherokee Heights School at the refreshment counter at a school dance. Four of the boys, Jerry Meulenberg, Douglas Green, Mi...
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Students at a Refreshment Counter

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: A group of students buying sodas at the refreshment counter at the Cherokee Heights School dance.
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Students at a High School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Four students, Kris Roisum, Karen Nelson, Charles Leveque, and Rick Radder, drinking sodas and chatting with Principal Emery Bainbridge at a Cherokee Heigh...
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Boy Scout Sled Race

Date: 01 24 1953
Description: Boy scout sled team participating in the Klondike Derby sled race. The boys are pulling the sled on the Monona Golf Course, with Nichols School in the back...
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Madison West High School Students

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Madison West High School students, Austin Munson, 2306 West Lawn Avenue, and Sally Baskerville, 342 Kensington Drive, enjoying sunshine outside the school.
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Nakoma Neighborhood Christmas Party

Date: 12 19 1947
Description: Nine young people gathered at the refreshment table at the annual neighborhood Christmas party given for all young people in Nakoma. Pictured left to righ...
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Nakoma Neighborhood Christmas Party

Date: 12 19 1947
Description: Among the young dancers who attended the traditional Christmas party for the boys and girls of Nakoma in the gym at Nakoma School were, left to right: Nanc...
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Vera Pay, Exchange Teacher from London

Date: 09 17 1948
Description: Vera Pay, right, exchange teacher from London, England, is shown instructing four Emerson school physical education 6th grade girls who are wearing gym clo...
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West High School Class Presidents

Date: 10 27 1948
Description: Pictured are the three new class presidents at West High School. From left to right: Jack Barry, sophomore class; Al Trotalli, senior class; and John Lovel...
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Catholic School Registration

Date: 08 06 1950
Description: Donald Reger and Douglas O'Neill show up for registration as two religious sisters open the door to St. Patrick school, 630 East Washington Avenue.
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Edgewood Laboratory School Traffic Patrol Students

Date: 09 29 1950
Description: Bernard A. Precourt, supervisor of safety for the Wisconsin division of the American Automobile Association, presents equipment to seventeen students at Ed...
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Lapham School Halloweem Party

Date: 10 31 1950
Description: At Lapham School, more than 800 costumed children and their parents attended one of the largest Halloween night parties held in Madison. Judges Roundy, and...
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Badger Spelling Bee Winner

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, ...
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Nakoma Girl Scout Troop No. 42

Date: 06 11 1952
Description: Ten members of Girl Scout Troop No. 42, Nakoma School, received curved bar awards at a court of honor. First row, left to right, are: Judy Dale, Jean Anne ...
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West High Football Team

Date: 11 03 1953
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the West High Football Team, taken behind West High School.
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Nakoma Welfare League Young Peoples Party

Date: 12 27 1953
Description: John Wilber, Patti Poehling, Suzanne Holly and Eric Peterson attend a dance in the Nakoma school gymnasium.
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Madison City Track Meet

Date: 05 07 1954
Description: Participants cross the finish line of the 880-yard run at the city track meet held at Madison East High School athletic field. Larry Graham of West, right,...
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Wisconsin High School Football Team

Date: 09 09 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin High School Football Team.
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Nakoma Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1957
Description: Gathered at the punch bowl are several committee members and guests at a Christmas party at Nakoma School, given by the Nakoma Welfare League for Nakoma yo...
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Royal trumpeters who heralded the evening's festivities at t...

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