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Wisconsin Future Farmers of America

Date: 02 21 1950
Description: Group portrait of officers and advisory council members of the Wisconsin Future Farmers of America Council at Green Lake for a planning meeting.
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Portrait of the Male Children in the Lowe Family

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Description: Studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men posed sitting in front of a painted backdrop and wearing suits, one holding a small boy. The male children of t...
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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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State High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 18 1950
Description: The state high school basketball champion team from St. Croix Falls poses in a locker room for a group portrait. They were the second-smallest town to win ...
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Nichols School Poster Contest for Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 03 31 1950
Description: Nichols School poster contest for the Red Cross Blood Drive. At rear is Clifford Olson, chairman and sponsor of the contest for the Blooming Grove and Mono...
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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Three junior high school students, recipients of a 1949 summer scholarship, pose with their teacher near an exhibit of the students' watercolor sketches. S...
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West Junior High School Spelling Finalists

Date: 04 04 1950
Description: Roger E. Trafford, principal at West junior high school, standing in an auditorium with his students who won the first four places in the school spelling b...
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Nakoma School Spelling Contest Finalists

Date: 04 07 1950
Description: The six finalists in the recent Nakoma School contest to pick a champion for the city finals of the State Journal's Badger spelling bee look up misspelled ...
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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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European Tour Group

Date: 05 02 1950
Description: Group portrait of young people from the Madison area who will travel together in Europe this summer. Standing, left to right: Helen Olson, Charles Sharpe, ...
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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: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, gives a handshake to champion Arlene Brown of Janesville as runner-up Dale Sorenson looks on.
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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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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon is shown surrounded by some of his 90,000 "radio children," 3,500 of whom sang for him Saturday at the University of Wisconsin stock ...
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...
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Rotary Presenting Check to Boy Scouts for Statute of Liberty

Date: 06 14 1950
Description: L.J. Markwardt, president of the Madison Rotary Club, is shown presenting Marvin Rosenberry, honorary president of the Boy Scouts Four Lakes Council, with ...
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UNICO Scholarship Winners

Date: 06 25 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin Professor Gian Orsini (right), is shown presenting UNICO scholarships to three Madison high school students and one from Hurley at ...
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Three European War Orphans

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, left, greets three war orphans visiting Madison under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Left to Ri...
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"Let's Go North For A South Victory"

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ...
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Edgewood Laboratory School Traffic Patrol Students

Date: 09 29 1950
Description: Bernard A. Precourt, supervisor of safety for the Wisconsin division of the American Automobile Association, presents equipment to seventeen students at Ed...

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