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Boy with Radio Kit

Date: 10 02 1954
Description: Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver.
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Shamrock Youth Baseball Team

Date: 07 26 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Shamrock youth baseball team. There are 15 boys in Shamrock t-shirts, and one coach.
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Menominee Indian on Bicycle

Date: 04 1954
Description: A young Menominee Indian (Charles ?) pauses briefly for a photograph while straddling his bicycle. He is stopped on the road with the snow-covered Wolf Riv...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 25 1954
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby winner Phil Peckham accepting his trophy on Midvale Boulevard.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Finish Line

Date: 07 25 1954
Description: Finish line of the Soap Box Derby on Midvale Boulevard. Two cars are about to cross the line with crowds of people watching from behind fences along the si...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 1954
Description: Fritz Ragatz waiting in line to race his WMTV-sponsored car on Midvale Avenue at the Madison soap box derby.
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Madison Edgewood High School Play

Date: 01 02 1954
Description: Students at Madison Edgewood High School act out a scene from the play "The Marriage Proposal". Peggy Forster and Michael Kretschman are in the scene and d...
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Mayor George Forster Signs Proclamation for Youth Week

Date: 01 26 1954
Description: Margaret Jo Kincaid, Neil Smith, Lois Ann Paulsen, and Rosemary McCafferty watch Mayor George Forester sign the proclamation for Youth Week.
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B'nai B'rith Girls

Date: 02 11 1954
Description: Group portrait of the B'nai B'rith girls as they plan the organization's "Sweetheart Swirl." Left to right are: Gail Chechik, Bunny Epstein, Nancy Wagner, ...
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High School Vocational Counseling

Date: 02 16 1954
Description: Leo Barnes, a guidance counselor at Madison West High School, confers with student Patricia Dimond about an aptitude test.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Dean Morfey, 12-years-old, is a surviving recipient of 15 pints of blood from the Red Cross during surgery. Morfey's leg was amputated after an accident.
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East High School Masquerade Party

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Diane Horalek, Harold Peckham, and John Spaeni take part in a masquerade party for East High School seniors on Saturday, February 24, 1954.
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Milwaukee South High School Wrestling Team

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Group portrait of the coach, manager, and nine members of the Milwaukee South High School wrestling team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: Rev. James R. Love (left), chaplain at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, sits at a desk beside four ministers receiving twelve weeks of clinical...
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YWCA Spring Classes

Date: 03 11 1954
Description: Group portrait of three women posing in athletic clothing with sports equipment in hand. They are, from left, Ruth Ward holding a tennis raquet, Ruth Edie ...
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Bob Berquist

Date: 03 17 1954
Description: Group portrait of Bob Berquist, #30, St. Croix Falls High School basketball player and one of the team's ace scorers, with 2 other teammates.
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Rai-Molay Dance Royalty

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Group portrait of the "royal family" for the spring semi-formal dance of the Order of De Molay and Order of Rainbow for Girls to be held at the Masonic Tem...
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Rai-Molay King and Queen

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Leland Briggs and Mary Lyon, king and queen of the spring semi-formal dance of the Order of De Molay and Order of Rainbow for Girls.
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Terry Snowden stands with crutches and looks on as Marjorie Parish, seated and wearing a leg brace with a crutch at her side, examines a pamphlet. They are...
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Susan Hamre, Spelling Champion

Date: 03 30 1954
Description: Portrait of Susan Hamre, Lowell School, one of nine individual Madison school spelling bee champions. The other students included Joyce Hoffman, St. Bernar...

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