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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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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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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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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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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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Shrine-Knights of Columbus Benefit Show

Date: 08 07 1957
Description: Red-headed Mary Spoerl getting up nerve to ride a camel at the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field. She is disabled and is bein...
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Madison Drum & Bugle Corps Trip

Date: 08 22 1957
Description: Members of the Boy Scout Corps posing for a group portrait prior to leaving on a trip to Florida to compete in the VFW national competition. The Scouts are...
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Children enjoy riding bikes at the U.W. Eagle Heights apartments. Barbara Bessae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bessae, is shown giving a ride to Tommy Bi...
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We Saw You Before Leaving for Europe

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: Shown outside the State Capitol after leaving the Supreme Court Chambers: (L to R): Dorothy Gregory; Mrs. Charles Doyle and daughter, Kathleen; Mrs. George...
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Three zoo keepers move a 45-year-old, one-hundred-fifty pound alligator from its winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Sherman School Girl Scouts Take Trip to Minneapolis

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: Thirteen Girl Scouts from Troop 31 from Sherman School prepare to depart on a bus to Minneapolis. The Girl Scouts will earn points for their travel badge. ...
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Madison YWCA Children's Fine Arts Program

Date: 07 20 1960
Description: Forty girls, ages 8-16, participate in Madison's first consolidated children's fine arts program sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. Ann Hoffman of the Y.W.C.A. staf...
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Madison YWCA Children's Fine Arts Program

Date: 07 20 1960
Description: Forty girls, ages 8-16, participate in Madison's first consolidated children's fine arts program sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. Ann Hoffman of the Y.W.C.A. staf...

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