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Bowling at the USO

Date: 1940
Description: A USO volunteer challenges an enthusiastic soldier to a friendly bowling match.
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Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Delegates

Date: 03 23 1943
Description: Group of people at the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative meeting. They are delegates, from REA (Rural Electrification Administration) member cooperatives, att...
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Dorothy Page & Mary Callahan

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Mary Callahan, Nakoma on the left, and Dorothy Page, Madison on the right, leaders in the qualifying round of the Wisconsin women's golf association tourna...
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East High School Boys Glee Club

Date: 03 06 1930
Description: East High School Boys Glee Club. A woman is standing in the center of the front row.
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United Givers' Fund Volunteer

Date: 10 23 1956
Description: Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath...
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YWCA Square Dance

Date: 11 17 1952
Description: Alma Stofen and Joanne Coyne dance to the accompaniment of clapping hands of women watching at a YWCA Health Education Department harvest square dance.
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High School Couples at Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Two high school couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi sorority dance at the Loraine Hotel. Left to right: Georgianna Browne, Emerson Black, Dan Benk...
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Couples at High School Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Three couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi high school sorority dance at the Hotel Loraine. Standing left to right: Mert Mellor, Virginia Welke, Si...
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Memorial Union Nightclub

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: The Memorial Union Campacabana club was attended by (at the top) Pvt. Donald Christesen, Bradley, Mich., and Kathleen McGuine, Madison. Seated are: La Vonn...
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Imogene Boggs

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss Imogene Boggs, membership chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club, standing next to her truck. She was the owner of the Suburban Gas an...
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Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee

Date: 07 16 1945
Description: Members of the Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee are shown planning for the event. Mrs. Robert Seidl and daughter Lynn on the left, Mrs. Frank Rentz, Mrs. ...
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War Brides

Date: 02 13 1947
Description: Group portrait of six war brides and one infant. Nine-month-old Susan Schreiber can claim both American and Australian citizenship. Shown playing with the ...
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L.C. and Daisy Bates with Men and KKK Cross

Date: 10 15 1956
Description: Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ...
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University of Wisconsin Military Ball Court

Date: 03 21 1949
Description: Rosemary Schneiders of Madison at left, and Virginia Rowlands of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at right, members of Kappa Kappa Gamma, two of the six co-eds chos...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Pictured at the Maple Bluff Country Club are Mrs. John Clauder of Milwaukee Westmoor Club, left, and Mrs. Marian Callahan, Madison, Blackhawk Club, who wil...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 15 1949
Description: Marian Callahn swinging a golf club at Maple Bluff Country Club. She was a leader after the qualifying round of the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association tou...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 20 1949
Description: Mrs. Floyd Vlight and Mrs. Vern Bell standing beside each other at Maple Bluff Country Club. The two women staged the longest match during the Wisconsin W...
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Wisconsin Dames Club Officers

Date: 09 19 1949
Description: The newly elected officers of the Wisconsin Dames Club, from left, are: Mrs. Wayne (Betty) McKibben, vice-president; Mrs. Robert (Evelyn) Gunderson, presid...
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Omicron Chapter of Zeta Phi Eta Sorority

Date: 09 30 1949
Description: Seven Madison girls sitting on the steps to an ivy-colored building with the active president of the Omicron chapter of the Zeta Phi Eta national speech ar...
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University League-Junior Division

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Pictured are three members of the bowling group of the Junior Division of the University League at the Wisconsin Union alleys. From left to right are: Mrs...

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