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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Five children dressed in Halloween costumes with jack-o-lanterns hanging overhead. Two of them are Robert J. Taylor's daughters, Ellen and Donna Taylor. |
| Date: | 03 30 1934 |
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| Description: | Fifteen YWCA Girl Reserves sitting around a table coloring Easter eggs and putting them in small baskets to be distributed to crippled children at the Wisc... |
| Date: | 03 18 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO clown "Toto" distributes cardboard Easter bunnies packed with lollipops from the W.T. Grant Company. This event was held in the 2nd floor playroom at U... |
| Date: | 02 22 1932 |
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| Description: | The John Bell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present a tableau of Martha Washington's life at the Hotel Loraine for the bicentennial o... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
| Date: | 05 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Veterans of World War I were among the participants in the Memorial Day parade. From left to right are Frank Austin, Frank Hermen and Peter C. Vanden Hueve... |
| Date: | 09 02 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Labor Day parade on the Capitol Square, at King Street, featuring a float that has the words "Win The War For Freedom" on the front. |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Shown left to right are: Judith Tormey, Florence Crowley, and holding a formal dress, Kathleen Kellogg. They are students at Rosary College. |
| Date: | 04 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Students Coleman Jackson, Joe Dean, and Dick Sexton are shown meeting with the Easter Bunny that has been entertaining children in a leading department sto... |
| Date: | 11 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Arriving for the holiday benefit dance for the young marrieds and college age crowd at the Turner Hall are Robert Hamilton of Maple Bluff and Rae Marie Roc... |
| Date: | 01 01 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of family members sitting at a table laden with food for a New Year's dinner. |
| Date: | 12 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Preparing invitations for the Christmas Subscription Dance are Sue Weston, 166 Lakewood Boulevard, and Joan Ellis, 122 Lakewood Boulevard. The event is for... |
| Date: | 03 07 1950 |
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| Description: | This little Irish miss is 2 1/2-year old Sally Anne O'Malley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Connor (Mary) O'Malley, 202 South Allen Street. |
| Date: | 04 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Three Madison high school girls modeling their Easter outfits featuring hats, dresses, gloves and high heeled shoes. Left to right: Lois Ann Hammer, West H... |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Spectators at the Memorial Day Parade standing and sitting on the curb along the Capitol Square at South Carroll Street and West Main Street. |
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| Description: | A view of the YWCA lounge at Christmas. Four women and a dog sit in front of an ornate fireplace. A large Christmas tree stands to the left of the fireplac... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A black and silver, hand-drawn, pen and ink holiday card with an Asian theme. A woman and a young man are facing each other, and a dried flower and sprig o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a castle, trees, pine trees with snow and three male figures in medieval style costumes playing musical instruments. Black, red and green... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three children singing. They are sharing a songbook and a long striped scarf. Pine boughs, two candles, holly, two birds and a rectangula... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a tinted drawing of a family. A father, mother, son, daughter, baby and a cat. In the background is a wreath of holly with a red bow. |
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