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Two Boys at Refreshment Counter

Date: 01 09 1956
Description: Rees Thomas and Billy Putnam at an ice skating party at the Truax Field clubhouse refreshment counter holding soda bottles.
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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 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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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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LOFT Opening Participants

Date: 11 18 1944
Description: Five boys gathered around the table at the opening of the LOFT youth center. Left to right: Gordon Findorff, Maple Bluff; Dick Sandersen, 919 Vilas Avenue;...
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Serving Cokes at the LOFT

Date: 11 18 1944
Description: Four girls serving cokes at the opening of the LOFT. Left to right: Mary Fahlberg, 1705 Jefferson Street; Dorothy Fox, 1705 Jefferson; Alice Harms, 202 N. ...
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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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Gene Charmley and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Gene Charmley, boy scout, applying rouge to the pitch lay upon which he is about to begin polishing for an 8-inch lens used in the reflector type telescope...
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Young Adult Club Anniversary Dance

Date: 03 05 1947
Description: Young Adult Club 1st Anniversary dance. Rodney Miller, Joe Ann Higgins, Elaine Roberts, and Tom Maloney are standing at the snack bar at the Community Cent...
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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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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Ronnie Kurth, a recent graduate of East High School, has a summer job of making fruit-flavored Popsicles and ice cream bars at Schoep's, 514 Division Stree...
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Dave Moran, a senior at West High School, has a summer job working at a local confectionery at the soda fountain and waiting on tables.
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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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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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Oscar Mayer Softball Team

Date: 08 01 1952
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Oscar Mayer softball team.
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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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