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Joe Fedele Receives Badge

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ...
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County Agent Demonstrating Methods of Judging Swine

Date: 1928
Description: Sitting on pig pen fence, a county agent is demonstrating methods of judging swine to a local Boys & Girls club youth.
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Scouts Receive Awards

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts receive the Eagle Scout rank or the Explorer Silver Award, scouting's highest awards at a scouting court of honor ceremony.
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Boy Scouts Troop #20

Date: 05 09 1945
Description: Presentation of the Eisenhower Awards to Boy Scouts Troop #20 at Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #32, Banquet

Date: 02 14 1943
Description: Boy Scouts, Troop #32 from Latter Day Saints Church, banquet with Senior Patrol scouts sitting at tables, and more scouts and adult leaders standing in the...
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Mayor Law Buying V.F.W. Poppy

Date: 05 10 1933
Description: Mayor James R. Law buying V.F.W. poppy from Miss Jane Elizabeth Ward.
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East High School Dramatics Club

Date: 03 05 1930
Description: Group portrait of the East High School Dramatics Club (A-H).
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East High School National Honor Society

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School National Honor Society, posing in a keystone formation.
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East High School Hi-Y Club

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School Hi-Y Club.
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East High School Triple X Club

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School Triple X Club.
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East High School Boys Debate Club

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School Boys Debate club.
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Central High School French Club

Date: 03 18 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Central High School French club.
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Chicago Traveling Club at McBride's Point

Date: 07 1875
Description: Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ...
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Boy Scout Troop #1

Date: 06 01 1949
Description: Group portrait of twenty-five Boy Scout Troop #1 members and four leaders with their flags and awards at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, 1833 Regent Stree...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Group portrait of Governor and Mrs. Walter S. Goodland at the Junior Red Cross picnic with new and retiring officers. From left to right: Mrs. Gertrude And...
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Governor Walter Kohler and Polio Victims

Date: 01 07 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M...
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Lowell School Cub Scout Christmas Party

Date: 12 19 1952
Description: Lowell School Cub Scouts at a combined Christmas party and "Webelos" ceremony. Seated are boys James Kernan, Richard Schnurbusch, Ronald Wornson, Donald No...
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Red Cross Donation

Date: 02 15 1944
Description: Madison East High School student, Sydney Freeman, presenting a check for the Red Cross war fund to Oscar Rennebohm and Albert Felly.
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War Bond Presentation

Date: 02 15 1944
Description: Boy Scout Troop 16 War Bond Presentation with Mayor F. Halsey Kraege signing the order to purchase $23,000 from the city insurance fund, $3,500 from Forest...
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Boys at Youth Club Event

Date: 03 10 1944
Description: Five boys in "stag line" at Cottage Grove Youth Club event in the Town Hall. Left to right are: Rowley Conant, Nora School; Rolly Gausmann, Cottage Grove S...

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