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Children's Nativity Scene

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Description: Children acting in a living nativity scene at St. Michael's Home. The three children represent an angel, Joseph, and Mary, and are gathered around a manger...
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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1928
Description: Holiday card of a stylized caroler holding a songbook and a wreath. Her scarf is blowing in the wind. The text "Holiday Greetings" appears in a sign in the...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1928
Description: Holiday card with the silhouettes of a father, mother and child. The word "From" appears in the upper left corner with holly behind it. In the opposite cor...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1929
Description: Holiday card with shepherds holding crooks and their sheep in the hills under the Christmas star. The text "Christmas Greetings" appears at the bottom. Let...
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Fourth of July Crowd

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Description: A crowd gathers on the pier and on the shore during a Fourth of July festival. Shops can be seen beyond the wharf. Published by Hall's Bookstore.
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Memorial Day

Date: 1968
Description: "Memorial Day."
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Memorial Day

Date: 1968
Description: "American Legion Post 270 members assemble on the bridge on Memorial Day."
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Christmas Day Presents

Date: 12 25 2011
Description: Robert “Rocky” Skifton with his grandson Christopher Roberts (right) and son Danny (left) on Christmas.
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 1993
Description: "Legionnaires Hubert Oechsner, Pete Bodden, Rudy Heinecke, Rueben Beck, Ralph Widmer, and Paul Koll stand at attention on Memorial Day."
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 26 1997
Description: "Memorial Day veterans — Del McKinney, Rudy Heinecke, Ralph Widmer, Virgil Krueger, Ken Schenning, Ralph Ruecker and Les Beck."
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Flag Burning Ceremony

Date: 11 1995
Description: Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day.
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Gene Koll

Date: 01 2000
Description: On New Year's Eve, Gene Koll, Vice President and Branch Manager of TSB Bank, Theresa, worked very late into the night compiling year-end data and watching ...
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Hanna Fritz Builds Easter Rabbit Out of Snow

Date: 04 17 1965
Description: Hanna Fritz building an Easter Rabbit out of snow after a snowfall of 2 inches in mid-April.
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Creating Holiday Centerpieces

Date: 12 10 1965
Description: Cleo Morschauser, sitting, is demonstrating techniques in creating holiday centerpieces in the Christmas workshop at Olds Garden Center. Watching are, left...
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"A Happy '80. Ohio Joy to All"

Date: 1980
Description: A baby, probably representing the New Year, is depicted wearing a diaper and holding a baby bottle that reads "Jo Beer." The text reads: "A Happy '80. Ohio...
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Easter Church-Goers

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: Hundreds of Easter church-goers crowd the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Gorham Street on Sunday morning.
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Easter Church-Goers

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: Mrs. Donald Knutson feeds her daughter Christine a bottle in a pew during the Easter service at Bethel Lutheran Church.
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse.
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Methodist Church Easter Pageant

Date: 04 28 1935
Description: First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant "At Dawning," with a large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel.
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Norwegian Folk Dancers

Date: 05 12 1934
Description: Group portrait of ten Norwegian folk dancers in costume, coached by John Odden, and Harold Smedal holding a Hardanger violin, who will perform for the Sons...

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