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Madison Figure Skating Club

Date: 02 22 1948
Description: Two young charter members of the Madison Figure Skating Club at Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Karen Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nelson, and...
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Governor Gaylord Nelson Starts Poppy Day Drive

Date: 05 12 1960
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson purchases the first red poppy to start the annual joint veterans organizations poppy sales days. Shown, left to right, are: Gov. Ne...
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Mental Health Drive

Date: 01 29 1959
Description: Mrs. Gaylord Nelson, wife of the governor and honorary chairman of the Dane County mental health campaign, places one of the first telephone calls to recru...
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Ruth Nelson and Red Cross Display

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o...
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NCAA Boxing Tournament

Date: 03 08 1960
Description: Wisconsin boxer Dave Nelson (left) and John Drye of San Jose State participate in their semi-final bout during the NCAA boxing tournament at the University...
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Governor Nelson Receives a Purple Heart Viola

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Six-year-old Deborah McCann presents a purple heart viola to Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson. The Madison chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Hea...
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Madison Youth Council Activities

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: James Ketchum, left, and Annette Nelson, right, members of the Madison Youth Council, admire their display in the window of Moseley's Book Store, which was...
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Zor Shrive Wive's Tea

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Nathan Nelson of Montfort, left, visits with one of the hostesses, Mrs. Earle S. (Bertha) Lewis, at the tea for Shriners' wives at the governor's resi...
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Zor Shrine Wive's Tea Party

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm hosts shriners' wives at a tea party at the executive residence. Shown with Mrs. Rennebohm are Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) Nelson, left, and M...
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Madison Skating Club Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Mrs. Alan (Jesse) Nelson, 1 South Owen Drive, is one of the leading members of the Madison Skating Club and is the current program chairman of the group an...
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Loft Halloween Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Joyce Nelson gets her hand stamped by Kristine Kaltbrunner at the Loft Halloween party. Admission cost one quarter and Dan Garson's orchestra performed for...
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Ladies' Golf -Bowling League

Date: 03 13 1959
Description: Among the guests at the luncheon at Nob Hill of the Ladies' Golf-Bowling League were Marian Nelson, seated, and standing, from left to right: Virgel Hought...
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Gamma Phi Beta Graduates

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Four Gamma Phi Beta graduates relaxing after completing final exams. Left to right: Marion Grinde, DeForest, Betty Nelson, Neenah, Barbara Fletcher, Joliet...
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YWCA Activities

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Three members of the YWCA doing floor stretching exercises under direction of, extreme left, Mrs. Robert L. Nelson, 75 Randall Park, YWCA physical educatio...
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Shrine's All-City Prep Team

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Group portrait of the Shriner Madison All-City high school football team. First row, left to right: Steve Nelson, West; Ray Winburn, East; Doug Hyalop, Ea...
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Summer Round-Up

Date: 04 05 1954
Description: Miss Evelyn C. Nelson (left), supervisor of nurses for the Department of Public Health, and Mrs. Frank J. (Lois) Woerdehoff, city Round-Up chairman, make p...
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Young Women's Christian Association Open House

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Ardella Nelson of Klemme, Iowa, a member of the Teen and Twenty club, points out something on the screen to Mrs. Florence Benjamin, formerly of Berkeley, C...
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East Side Business Men's Association Officers

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Four newly elected officers of the East Side Business Men's Association are, left to right: Henry Roth, president; William Sandberg, secretary; Richard Hav...
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Men's State Volleyball Meet Teams

Date: 04 28 1947
Description: Men's state volleyball championship team from the Milwaukee YMCA. Members of the team are Stephen Burican, Robert Gromey, Boden Davis, Clarence Decker, Cla...

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