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Candidate Laird

Date: 11 01 1966
Description: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird distributing his campaign literature outside the Marathon Electric plant gate.
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gay Ladies Mrs. H.C. Jackson (4014 Council Crest) holding a Butterick magazine, and Mrs. Walter Price (3825 Council Crest) (reflected in mirror)...
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Where's Joe?

Date: 08 03 1952
Description: Leonard Schmitt, independent Republican candidate for the United States Senate, holding a copy of The McCarthy Record and pointing to an empty chair...
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Girl Scouts Distribute Election Literature

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: Four Girl Scouts hand out voting literature prepared by the League of Women Voters at the Red Owl store on University Avenue. Dorothy Kittleson takes a pam...
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West Side Optimist Club Meeting

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Dr. Carl W. Umland, Wesley West, Dr. Lloyd Langer, Lester Moller and Jerome Braman are looking at the latest West Madison-Middleton Optimist Club bulletin.
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Marlene Cummings and Sylvia Dunnavant

Date: 05 10 1982
Description: Marlene Cummings, Special Advisor for Women's initiatives for Governor Lee Dreyfus, at right, in an office looking over a newsletter on women's initiatives...
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Catalog Shopper

Date: 11 20 1988
Description: Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase.
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Annual Observance of World Community Day

Date: 10 02 1958
Description: Madison church women plan to join United Church Women throughout the world to observe World Community Day. The service is held at the First Evangelical Uni...
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Changing Calendar

Date: 05 05 1927
Description: Man turning calendar page of a National Guardian Life Insurance calendar.
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Susan Jakel, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of th...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Greg Gessert, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with his classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of t...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Ellen Nicholson, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part o...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Jacklynn Dulek, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of...
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Brodhead Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Brodhead Public Library. There is a poster on the wall advertising "The Debtor, a novel by May E. Wilkens Freeman." There are bookshel...
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Americanization Pageant

Date: 08 31 1953
Description: Three members of the Madison Council of Church Women executive board examine brochures with Jessie Kriel, the Americanism chairman of the Madison Woman's C...
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Gudrid Reading Circle Members

Date: 01 07 1947
Description: Included in the group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary luncheon of the founding of the Gudrid Reading circle are, from the left: Mrs. Juliue E. (Ann...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Three members of the camp advisory committee of the Community Welfare Council, sponsor of Madison's first Camp Week, look at literature and materials displ...
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Sons of Norway District Convention

Date: 05 22 1958
Description: Some of the "advance guard" for the Sons of Norway district convention at Hotel Loraine. Left to right are: Bernard Jacobson, Evanston, Illinois, district ...
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Magazines Displayed in Window

Date: 03 24 1931
Description: Magazines in the Capitol Times window. The "Woman's Home Companion" and "American Magazine" are displayed.
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J...

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