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| Date: | 04 21 1970 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathering for the first Earth Day march. Someone is holding the ecology flag. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Children attend a Dress Up Day celebration at Truax Park playground. A child is finishing up her costume at center. |
| Date: | 11 17 1961 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football coach Milt Bruhn standing with his son Peter, a sophomore, before Parents' Day. |
| Date: | 04 21 1970 |
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| Description: | People walking near a bus before the first Earth Day march. One man is holding up an ecology flag. In the background people are standing on the sidewalk un... |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of women at Nakoma Golf Course on Guest Day. |
| Date: | 11 11 1960 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a woman holding a US flag. "Many women - like this one — became misty-eyed during the solemn Veterans Day ceremony as they thought of t... |
| Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Three generation Mother's Day portrait of Violet Schneiders (grandmother), Betty Sonneland, Jr. (mother), with 4-year-old Arthur "Kim," and 19-month-old Kr... |
| Date: | 10 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Five Alpha Kappa Delta members are honored at a Founder's Day Banquet. Left to right, seated: Hulda Gefke and Beatrice Husby. Standing: Viola Damp, Emily ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1956 |
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| Description: | Father and daughter Theodore and Janet Weiss setting up bowling pins on Dads Day at Milwaukee-Downer College. |
| Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Madison's first public Flag Day ceremony held at the UW football stadium. |
| Date: | 04 22 1970 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson speaking at a podium on Earth Day with a flag partially visible in the background. |
| Date: | 10 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler signs a proclamation making November 11, 1954 the first Veterans Day in Wisconsin. Looking on, left to right, are: Francis Lorbecki ... |
| Date: | 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson speaking at a podium during Earth Week with an American flag in the foreground, and the Earth Day flag behind it. |
| Date: | 05 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Former Madison resident, 86 year old William Nichols, listening to a talk at the Memorial Day ceremony, located at Central High School because of rain. He ... |
| Date: | 03 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Three "Irishmen" in the St. Patrick's Day mood. Left to right: Tom McManus of Central High School, Jo Gilbert of Edgewood High School, and "Rusty" Moran of... |
| Date: | 10 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to participate in a service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. At center left, ... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of the "Outdoor Living Day" event, sponsored by the Madison Chamber of Commerce, model Marlyn Sachtjen reclines on an inflated beach mattress in th... |
| Date: | 05 15 1959 |
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| Description: | Four men visit at the observance of Norway's Syttende Mai Independence Day, sponsored by the Ygdrasil Literary Society at the Wisconsin Center. From left a... |
| Date: | 05 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Thirty carrier boys for Madison Newspapers wave goodbye before leaving on a train for a four-day vacation trip to Washington D.C. These boys won the trip b... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Model Marlyn Sachjen being helped out of the temporary pool which had been constructed on Capitol Park at the head of State Street. She had been modeling s... |
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