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Wisconsin Commission to Locate Monuments on the Gettysburg's Battlefield Site

Date: 05 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top.
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Playground Supervisors

Date: 06 15 1934
Description: Group portrait of fifteen men and ten women. They are playground supervisors hired by the Board of Education and Madison Park Commission to run nine full t...
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Tree Placement

Date: 06 03 1963
Description: Members of the Brown Deer beautification committee plant trees along the boulevard.
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Group Portrait of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights

Date: 10 09 1947
Description: Members of Governor Oscar Rennebohm's Commission on Human Rights are shown outside of the Wisconsin State State Capitol for their first formal meeting.
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SNCC Group Near Burned Church

Date: 1962
Description: Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia.
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SOC Leaders

Date: 09 1993
Description: Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event.
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 05 1949
Description: Members of the planning committee for the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association state tournament to be held at the Maple Bluff Country Club. From left are Mrs...
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State Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 15 1949
Description: The tournament committee for the Wisconsin women's golf association tournament gathers beneath a tree for a group portrait. The tournament was to be held a...
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Nakoma Women's Golf-Guest Day

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Mrs. Patrick (Bess) Lahiff (left) of 111 West Wilson Street, chairman of the tournament committee of the Nakoma Guest Day, and Mrs. Peter (Iris) Henter of ...
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Women on Strike

Date: 08 1957
Description: Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f...
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National Parks Advisory Board

Date: 1965
Description: Members of the National Parks Advisory Board in Alaska with Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (second from the left). Others, left to right, are Sig...
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Wallace Stegner

Date: 1965
Description: Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist...
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West Side Garden Club

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Christina Dana, president-elect of the West Side Garden Club, and Doris Mohs, the retiring president, standing among the Aboretum crab apple blossoms. The ...
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Federated Garden Clubs Flower Show

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Ruth Harris, left, general chair of the Federated Garden Clubs flower show, and Burdean Struckmeyer, in charge of the flower arrangement schedule, sitting ...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association State Tournament

Date: 07 13 1954
Description: Portrait of Virginia Sprague, chairman of the rules committee, and Beatrice Cartwright, member of the rules committee for the 42nd annual state tournament ...
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Mendota Yacht Club Hosts Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta

Date: 07 31 1954
Description: The 53rd annual Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta hosted by the Mendota Yacht Club is held in Madison August 22, 1954. Pictured are three members of...
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Women's Civic Music Association

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Group portrait of officers of the new Women's Committee of the Madison Civic Music Association. Standing left to right: Viola A. Ward, Viola O. Fenske and ...
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Madison Civic Music Association

Date: 05 07 1956
Description: Two officers of the new Woman's Committee of the Madison Civic Music Association. Left to right: Elizabeth Berst, corresponding secretary, and Dorothy Saw...
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Who's New Club Fall Luncheon

Date: 09 14 1956
Description: Three members of the Who's New Club board of directors attend their fall luncheon at Maple Bluff Country Club. Left to right: Mrs. John W. Storer, Elizabet...
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Attic Angels Home and Garden Tour Committee

Date: 07 11 1957
Description: Some of the committee chairmen for the annual Attic Angels Home and Garden Tour preview box lunches to be served on the tour. Sitting at an outdoor table, ...

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