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Couple Looking at Record

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record.
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Ho-Chunk Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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Group of Campers at McBride's Point

Date: 1879
Description: A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pi...
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Allis Promanaders Square Dancing

Date: 12 09 1952
Description: The "Allis Promanaders," a square dancing group that meets in the gym of Frank Allis school, hold a public square dancing party for the benefit of the Empt...
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Couple Shopping at Grocery Store Dairy Case

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Elevated view of man and woman with a grocery cart shopping at the dairy case in a grocery store. Sign over case reads: "There's a Heap of Good Livin' Down...
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McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Kalbrach stand in front of their McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler. Mr. Kalbrach is wearing overalls and Mrs. Kalbrach is wearing a fl...
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Madison Business College Spring Formal

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Beverly Hackbart of 2541 Commerical Avenue sitting at her typewriter at the Madison Business College, 215 West Washington Avenue. She will be crowned queen...
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Man and Woman with Freezer

Date: 1944
Description: A man and woman standing at an International Harvester chest freezer holding pieces of poultry and meat. They are standing in front of a curtain.
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Studio Portrait of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia. The man is holding a rifle and another object upright with his left hand. L...
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Copy Photograph of Portrait of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia, the former is also holding a rifle and another object ...
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Copy Photograph of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia. The man is also holding a rifle and another object in ...
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Bride on Stage

Date: 04 26 1970
Description: A high point of the weekend was the marriage on Sunday of Robert Leslie and Barbara Swenson of the band Northern Comfort. The bride wore flowers in her hai...
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Robert Leslie and Barbara Swenson of Northern Comfort

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A high point of the weekend was the marriage on Sunday of Robert Leslie and Barbara Swenson of the band Northern Comfort. Overhead view of the couple, eith...
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Abner Doubleday and his Wife Mary

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Major General Abner Doubleday in uniform, sitting, and his wife Mary, standing, wearing a cape over her dress.
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Couple Receiving Marriage License

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ...
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Harold N. Hone and His Wife Vivian

Date: 1939
Description: A studio portrait of Harold and Vivian Hone posing with a camera.
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WMVS-TV Mobile Unit Filming Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Date: 1961
Description: The operators of the mobile unit of WMVS-TV, a community station out of Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools, film an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale ...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 09 28 1953
Description: Beth Ross is sitting at a typewriter while her husband, John E., is holding their two-month-old son, Tommy. Beth is the president of the Junior Division of...
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Ventriloquism Act

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Description: Ben Bergor, Madison magician, ventriloquist, and entertainment agent, performing with Jerry O'Reilly at a farm show. With Bergor is his wife Alva who often...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Barbara Ruffalo works as a receptionist at Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, while her husband, Ronald, is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin in mechanic...

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