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| Date: | 11 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Service league members of Christ Presbyterian Church prepare their "Home for the Holidays" tour, boutique, and bake sale. Many of the items to be shown in ... |
| Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Schoolgirls showing one another the valentines they are making in class to celebrate the holiday. |
| Date: | 04 08 1935 |
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| Description: | F.W. Woolworth Store, 1-5 E. Main Street, with a display of 27 Easter baskets. |
| Date: | 12 17 1982 |
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| Description: | Operetta Scene - The Hansberry-Sands Theater Company performed a scene from "Black Nativity" at St. Agnes Church, 4055 N. 25th St. |
| Date: | 11 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Nativity creche (belonging to Mrs. Fred Chamberlin, 3475 West Belt Line?). |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Girls walking in a parade, probably on Memorial Day. |
| Date: | 11 25 1919 |
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| Description: | Kaiser's funeral wagon for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day. |
| Date: | 11 25 1919 |
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| Description: | Submarine float for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day. |
| Date: | 12 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Life-sized nativity scene at the State Street corner of the Wisconsin Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
| Date: | 04 04 1969 |
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| Description: | Rabbits as big as 6-month-old Jennifer Tetzlaff sit in and near an Easter basket while she plays with cellophane "grass." |
| Date: | 12 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea. |
| Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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| Description: | A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards. |
| Date: | 11 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday women's formal wear display window at Manchester's Department Store, showing two mannequins. |
| Date: | 05 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Easter display window of Hankscraft egg cooker at Harloff-Loprich. |
| Date: | 05 28 1979 |
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| Description: | A pair of boy and girl toddlers lead a part of the 33rd annual Memorial Day Parade on flag-bedecked tricycles. |
| Date: | 12 24 1972 |
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| Description: | Traditional outdoor nativity display at 3434 Lake Mendota Drive, including trees with lights. |
| Date: | 01 14 1939 |
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| Description: | View of a decorated house at 1450 Rutledge Street. There are individuals gathered on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a branch of pink and red berries and green leaves over a metallic silver disc. The word "Greetings" appears below. Letterpress. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with printed wood grain. A box in the center with a white, brown and red border reads: "greetings" with a red star. |
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