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Group Portrait of Women

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of nineteen women standing and sitting behind a table, taken for Bess Weiner (?).
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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Examining one of the tallest Ch...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Warren Olsen flipping over a roast in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School.
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Emil Thomas taking his beagle, BeBe, on a leash with him to fish. Walking along the dirt shore of the pond at Tenney Park, the dog is pulling on the leash,...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River...
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Trick Golf Shots

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Portrait of Steve Plater, to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of him standing with his golf club at the Maple Bluff golf course w...
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American Legion Parade on Capitol Square

Date: 07 18 1954
Description: Drum majors Beverly Schultz (left) and Dale Gourlie (right) from Hartford resting after their marching band participated in the annual state American Legio...
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboy, Fred Ciebell (from Edgerton) waving goodbye from a window to his parents, Wes and Elaine Ciebell, and brother. Fred is in...
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Outdoor Nativity at Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 12 1954
Description: A girl is admiring the outdoor nativity displayed at the Grace Episcopal Church at 116 West Washington Avenue on Capitol Square. The display includes Mary,...
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Chief Warrant Officer Sam Gubner Retires

Date: 12 31 1954
Description: Standing in the back row, left to right, are Chief Warrant Officer Sam Gubner; James Shafer, a family friend and neighbor; and his son Mike, 14. Sitting in...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens...
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Nellie Jones Attending a Circus

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t...
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City of Madison & U.W. Police Graduates

Date: 08 1955
Description: Sixteen new Madison policemen and three U.W. officers receiving their diplomas at a graduation ceremony held at the City of Madison Police Academy School. ...
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Women's Western Open

Date: 06 23 1955
Description: After shooting her record-smashing five under par, Louise Suggs of Sea Island, Georgia, signs her autograph for Kay Pierson of Beloit. Kay's mother is the ...
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Larry Bolen, of 1233 Jenifer Street and a senior at East High School, works after school at a local service garage to earn spending money.
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Three Wisconsin State Journal carriers entered in a magazine subscription contest get a pep talk about getting subscriptions from Bob Neuendorf, a d...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Michael Smith (9 years old) shouts to his fellow scouts that it is time for the picnic lunch. He is a member of Cub Scout Pack #321, Den #6 picnicking at H...

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