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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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Central High School Debate

Date: 03 20 1929
Description: Central High School debate, Central vs. Beloit.
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Central High School Girls' Club

Date: 03 21 1929
Description: Central High School girls' club, officers and advisors group portrait, with sixteen girls and women sitting and standing.
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Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: A Civil Rights workshop in session at Highlander School showing Myles Horton, Mikii Marlowe, Essau Jenkins, Septima Clark and Rosa Parks in attendance.
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Cherokee Heights School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: One chaperon and two students drinking sodas at a Cherokee Heights School Dance.
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West High School Radio Club

Date: 10 31 1952
Description: Two members of the West High School radio club, Alan Frees and Bill Reeve, operating the club's "ham" station. Observing the young men are Henry Lugg, spo...
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West High School Girls' Rifle Team

Date: 02 25 1953
Description: West High School Girls' Rifle Team, front to back, Betty Newton, Rita Bisbee, and Alice Pedracine, prepare for their first competitive meet.
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Tomah High School Cheerleaders

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Five Tomah High School Cheerleaders at the WIAA State High School Basketball Tournament. Left to right: Mary Ellen Kenny, Roxy Buxton, Donna Jo Stoll, Kar...
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Madison East High School Cheerleaders

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Madison East High School Cheerleaders at the WIAA State High School Basketball Tournament. Front row left to right: Erma Borland, Noreen Walker, Lyle Leve...
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Youth Radio Workshop

Date: 02 07 1948
Description: Betty Booth, associate editor of Seventeen magazine, being interviewed by Madison high school students on the Madison Youth Radio Workshop program b...
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Young Citizenship Group Sewing

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Description: Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School.
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un...
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Yerkes Observatory Tour

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Three high school science teachers and a Kiwanis Club representative escort 22 pupils from Madison's five high schools on a Kiwanis-sponsored educational t...
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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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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Second place spelling bee champion Dale Sorenson, left, receiving a $25 dollar check from Roy L. Matson, State Journal editor. Looking on are Dale's mother...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on...
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Rotary Club Spelling Bee

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: Six grade school pupils defeated six Rotary adults 37 to 31 at the Rotary Club Spelling Bee at the Hotel Loraine. The spellers, Rotarians, and school child...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of Beth Knope, winner of the 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, holding her trophy and standing between her teacher Floy Kendrick, on the left, and h...
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Edgewood College Freshman Prom

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Six girls wearing formal prom gowns are posed around a large ship steering wheel. They are, left to right: Marilyn Warner, Waukegan, Ill.; Peggy Golden, Be...
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State Normal School Girls' Tennis Courts

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Description: Elevated view of girls playing tennis on the lawn at the State Normal School.

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