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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays. |
| Date: | 04 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Rabbits in a special exhibit at Vilas Zoo. |
| 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: | 11 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Nativity creche (belonging to Mrs. Fred Chamberlin, 3475 West Belt Line?). |
| 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: | 09 01 1952 |
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| Description: | The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile passes by spectators watching the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. City Hall is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Children lining the street for the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 03 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women at a table cutting paper shamrocks of different sizes. They are making the holiday crafts at a dining room table. |
| Date: | 12 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Margaret Stephan making a batch of her favorite "Almond Crisps" cookies. |
| Date: | 09 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Spectators crowd the curb while watching the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. Storefronts are behind them, including Forbes-Meagher. |
| Date: | 09 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Reviewing stand at the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Vogts is making a flower arrangement while wearing an Easter hat made of imported toyo straw. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John V. Mc Keon posing beside a floral arrangement while wearing an Easter hat. |
| Date: | 03 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Three-year-old Jane Bush sits on a chair while hugging her pink Easter bunny. |
| Date: | 12 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Karen Nielsen, a native from Denmark, lights candles in a Christmas decoration she made for her dinner table. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda during the holiday season. A man is standing on a ladder which is on top of scaffolding to decorate the tree. |
| Date: | 03 14 1952 |
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| Description: | J. Edward O'Connell, an assistant cashier at First National Bank, with some green carnations. He traditionally hands out green carnations to one hundred fi... |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Hundreds of Easter church-goers crowd the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Gorham Street on Sunday morning. |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| 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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