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Joe Fedele Receives Badge

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ...
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County Agent Demonstrating Methods of Judging Swine

Date: 1928
Description: Sitting on pig pen fence, a county agent is demonstrating methods of judging swine to a local Boys & Girls club youth.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #32, Banquet

Date: 02 14 1943
Description: Boy Scouts, Troop #32 from Latter Day Saints Church, banquet with Senior Patrol scouts sitting at tables, and more scouts and adult leaders standing in the...
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Model Airplane Builders Club

Date: 06 01 1934
Description: Group portrait of members of a vocational school model airplane builders club, each holding a model airplane with a diagram of a cambered aerofoil from a c...
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Chicago Traveling Club at McBride's Point

Date: 07 1875
Description: Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ...
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West High School Radio Club

Date: 10 31 1952
Description: Two members of the West High School radio club, Alan Frees and Bill Reeve, operating the club's "ham" station. Observing the young men are Henry Lugg, spo...
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Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Madison Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps taken at a Kiwanis Club meeting.
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Calf Club Lesson

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Description: Agricultural extension representative Hugh Feagle presenting a lesson to the members of a calf club.
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Central High School Baseball Champions

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Group portrait of the Central High School boys' baseball team, winners of the state championship, after being honored at a Madison Rotary Club luncheon.
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Rotary Presenting Check to Boy Scouts for Statute of Liberty

Date: 06 14 1950
Description: L.J. Markwardt, president of the Madison Rotary Club, is shown presenting Marvin Rosenberry, honorary president of the Boy Scouts Four Lakes Council, with ...
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Whitehouse Conference Delegate

Date: 11 30 1950
Description: John Novotny, chosen as a delegate to the Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth, is shown receiving a check to help pay his expenses fro...
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Zonta Scholarship Winners

Date: 12 18 1951
Description: Paul I. Trump, left, is shown presenting a Madison Zonta Club scholarship award to Louise Yanke of Milwaukee, right, while the two other recipients of the ...
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Loft Sixth Anniversary Celebration

Date: 01 23 1952
Description: Erin "Ace" Karp, advisor for the Loft, is shown discussing arrangements for the celebration in honor of the Loft's sixth anniversary with Carolyn Ames, pro...
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Rainbow Girls and DeMolay Dance Committee Members

Date: 07 15 1952
Description: Among the committee members of the Rainbow Girls and DeMolay Clubs making plans for a summer dance to be held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Masonic temple...
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Boys' Club of America Award

Date: 03 28 1956
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler receives the Golden Anniversary Award from two representatives of the Boys' Clubs of America.
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Optimists Fete Baseball Boys

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: Participants in the Downtown Optimists boys' baseball kickoff luncheon. Left to right: John Stolper, Pferron Doss, and Ron Triggs, baseball captains; Charl...
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Optimists Clubs Support Plan Aiding Hard-to-Reach Youth

Date: 12 29 1958
Description: A check for $400 is being handed over to the State Department of Public Welfare by the Associated Optimists Clubs to help in a study of "hard-to-reach yout...
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President of White Sox Speaks at Optimist Club

Date: 06 15 1959
Description: Bill Veeck (left), president of the Chicago White Sox, chats with three managers of Madison boys baseball teams before speaking at the downtown Optimist Cl...
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Brodhead Mandolin Club

Date: 1896
Description: Group portrait of the Brodhead Mandolin Club. The men are wearing suits and neckties, and all the women wear long white dresses. There are mandolins, as we...
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We Saw You . . . at Yacht Club Event

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: The Mendota Yacht Club holds its annual Commodore's dinner-dance at the Maple Bluff Country Club. Shown (L-R) are: (standing) John Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Phili...

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