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4-H Tractor Queen Serenaded on a Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: 4-H Tractor Queen receiving a cake on a Farmall Cub tractor while other 4-H members serenade her.
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Marian Dolan 4-H Champion Making a Cake

Date: 11 18 1931
Description: Marian Dolan, of the Maple Knoll 4-H club north of Sun Prairie, 1931 National 4-H champion, making a cake. Shows a Hershey's Cocoa can.
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Frosty House

Date: 12 18 1963
Description: A craft class member of Milwaukee public school system's recreation department frosting a gingerbread cookie house at the Grant Street social center.
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Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Three Girl Scouts sampling cookies at the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, with a baker, Reider Strand. Left to right: Sandra Bird, 1325 Jenifer ...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of...
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Young Adult Club 1st Anniversary

Date: 03 05 1947
Description: Young Adult Club 1st anniversary dance. Leaders in the Young Adult Club founding, Wilma Kirch and Frances Casper, are shown with the "YAC" anniversary cake...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Girl Scouts Patsy Jensen, Lowell School, daughter of Mrs. Mary Jensen, and Carol Anderson, Lincoln School, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. A.W. Anderson, make a ...
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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Syl with Cake and Christmas Tree

Date: 1901
Description: Syl sitting at a table with a birthday cake with eight candles. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
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Children of the American Revolution

Date: 03 13 1951
Description: Members of the Timothy Hatch Society of the Children of the American Revolution take part in the commemoration ceremony in recognition of the founding of M...
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Boy Scouts 42nd Anniversary

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Five Sea Scouts surprise former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry with a birthday cake on his eighty-fourth birthday. He has been pres...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Date: 02 27 1952
Description: Girl Scouts Janet and Jane Brandenburg promote a Girl Scout cookie sale to Dorothy Freck.
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Girl Scout Week

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Demonstrating their ability at homemaking, baking and testing cookies, are four members of the Girl Scout troop at Middleton High School who have just beco...
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Angel Food Cake Blue Ribbon Winner

Date: 1921
Description: High school student Harold Enge poses with his blue ribbon winning angel food cake during an International Harvester Company Short Course. Additional cakes...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 10 29 1957
Description: Girl Scouts of Mariner Ship Troop 4, Black Hawk Council, pack materials for the cookie sale to be held in 1958. Pictured: Judy Reigle, Nancy Gibson, Anne N...
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Madison Young Adult Club Party

Date: 03 04 1959
Description: The 13th anniversary of the Madison Young Adult Club is celebrated at a party at the Madison Community Center, 16 E. Doty Street. Shown admiring a fancy ca...
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June Dairy Month on Capitol Square

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro...
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Black Hawk Council Girl Scouts Plan Cookie Sale

Date: 02 23 1960
Description: Mrs. Dorothy Conrad talks over plans for the cookie sale with members of Black Hawk Council Girl Scouts of Sherman school Troop 31. Seated scouts are: Judy...
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Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 02 2014
Description: Girl Scouts selling cookies at Festival Foods on Copeland Avenue.

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