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Girl Reserves Coloring Easter Eggs

Date: 03 30 1934
Description: Fifteen YWCA Girl Reserves sitting around a table coloring Easter eggs and putting them in small baskets to be distributed to crippled children at the Wisc...
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Preparations for Young People's Assembly Holiday Party

Date: 12 01 1956
Description: David Ahlgren, Fritz Hasler, Ellen Cline, Sally Wagner, Kathy Taylor and John Washa making decorations for the Young People's Assembly holiday party to be ...
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YWCA Hanging of the Greens

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Five members of various YWCA organizations inspecting decorations to be used in the traditional "Hanging of the Greens" at the YWCA. Seated from left to ri...
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Nakoma Girl Scouts, Troop 42

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: In preparation for Christmas, Girl Scout Troop 42 of Nakoma School made 30 stuffed animals for children at the Washington Orthopedic school, and 100 Christ...
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New Loft Bandstand Decoration

Date: 06 28 1950
Description: A new decoration adorns the bandstand at The Loft, a youth center at the Madison Community Center.
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Children and Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 19 1950
Description: Jeffery, age 10, Leslie, 6, and Kurt, 3, children of Dr. Leslie and Jean Antonius, hold wrapped Christmas gifts while standing in front of their home at 32...
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Charles Taylor Family

Date: 1902
Description: Family portrait of Charles Taylor, his wife, Ellen Wishart, and their two children taken on the lawn in front of their house. Lorena Taylor, standing besi...
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YWCA Club

Date: 10 23 1951
Description: Three members of the YWCA Teen 'N Twenty club put up a lamp post for the upcoming "Old Lamp Lighter" dance. Left to right: Leaty Fritz, Helen Salzmann, a...
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All City Football Team Banquet

Date: 11 14 1951
Description: Charles Thomas of East High School, and Pat Lawrence of West High School put the finishing touches on decorations for the all-city football team banquet at...
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Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with Boy Scouts

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Description: Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. participating in a ceremony in front of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin with a large group of Boy Scouts and Boy Scout lead...
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Loft Christmas Party

Date: 12 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Larry Brown, West High School student, and Donna Tupper, East High School, seated by Christmas wall decorations at the Loft, a Madison teen org...
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Herold Team of the Milwaukee Turners

Date: 09 21 1886
Description: Twenty-seven young men and George Brosius posing outdoors with sporting equipment. The young men are dressed in short sleeved shirts and pants (possibly an...
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Christmas Parties

Date: 12 20 1954
Description: Susan Stauffer (left), Jerry Harned, Stephen Sawin and Karen Olson admire the decorations during the University Club's annual Christmas dance for their mem...
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Christmas Parties

Date: 11 20 1954
Description: Beverly Slauson and Paul Gesiler sit with a large Santa Claus balloon during the Nakoma Welfare League dancing party for young people of the area.
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East Side Youth Council Committees

Date: 10 14 1957
Description: Two members of the decorations committee, Judy Johnson and Paul Haskenson, prepare for the annual East Side Youth Council's homecoming dance. They are work...
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East High School Benefit Dance

Date: 04 01 1958
Description: Decorations are created for "East Escapades" benefit dance to raise funds to bring a foreign exchange student to East High School next year. Left to right:...
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Junior Prom

Date: 04 15 1910
Description: Elevated view from stage towards a large group of young people in formal attire standing in a decorated gymnasium. People are also up in the balcony. Capti...
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Second Ward School

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Second Ward School, South Milwaukee, Wis." A brick and stone two story schoolhouse with the students posing on the sidewalk in front.

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