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Two Boy Scout Pen Pals
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Two Boy Scouts, George Koehler of Madison, at left, and Michael Benamou, at right, scout from Marseilles, France, who is visiting in Madison. The two scouts are pen pals.
June 4, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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