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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Boy at Bat

Date: 06 20 1963
Description: Helmeted boy swings a bat at city of Brown Deer's recreation department baseball camp.
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Cherokee School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Male teacher and a student bowing to one another at the beginning of a dance at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
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Girl Scout Jane McElvain

Date: 01 27 1944
Description: Thirteen year old Jane McElvain, the youngest member of the Mariner Senior Girl Scout program and an editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal Newsp...
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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Don Page, West High School Basketball Player

Date: 02 13 1945
Description: Don Page, all-time individual Big Eight Conference scoring record holder. The six-foot 3-inch high school center broke his own record with a total of 167 p...
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Katz Family Portrait at Marilyn's Bat Mitzvah

Date: 1979
Description: Katz family portrait at Marilyn's bat mitzvah. Foreground: Ruthie, Rosa, Marilyn, and Sue (daughter-in-law). Background: Bernard and Arthur. Temple B'nai I...
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Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
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Butch Quirk Fills the Hopper

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed filling the hopper of his Cub Cadet tractor with fertilizer.
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Apostle Islands Tour

Date: 1979
Description: Senator Gaylord Nelson, Dave Obey, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, walk along a beach with a park ranger during a tour of the Apostle Islands. ...
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Youthful Republicans for Barry Goldwater

Date: 09 22 1964
Description: Three young men displaying some campaign materials outside their own GOP headquarters in a garage at 8608 W. Meinecke Avenue in Wauwatosa. They are, from l...
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Mrs. F.G. Miller, adult leader of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club, assists LaVerne Henshue as he plans his garden project.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the...
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Looking Through Car Interior

Date: 07 08 1956
Description: View from the interior of a car looking out of the passenger window. A woman is sitting on the passenger side of the car. A boy standing outside is looking...
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Mrs. Charles Slightam and Grandsons

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Mrs. Charles Slightam and her grandsons, Pierre, left, and Warren Slightam, right. Pierre, 15, came in first at the recent Madison Soap Box Derby and will ...
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Studio Portrait of Four Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1934
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing standing behind two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing sitting. They a...
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The Loft Community Center Anniversary Dance

Date: 01 30 1950
Description: Bob Firehammer (left) and Bob Haukedahl sit on a ping pong table at the anniversary dance at the Loft Community Center, 16 East Doty Street.
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Madison Lutheran School Spelling Champion

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: Barbara North of 1003 Jenifer Street, the spelling champion of the Madison Lutheran School, sits at a desk while reading a newspaper. A dictionary lies ope...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste...
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...

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