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"Home Improvement Year" Declaration
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Madison mayor-elect Ivan Nestingen signs a proclamation announcing 1956 as "Home Improvement Year" as Marvin Reimann, Duane Bowman, and J. Jesse Hyman are looking on.
April 12, 1956
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Farewell Banquet for Nestingen
February 5, 1961
Wendell Phillips, City Council president, presents ex-mayor Ivan Nestingen with a key to the city telling him he would always be welcome in Madison. President John F. Kennedy had appointed Nestinge...
Mayor Nestingen and Japanese Skiers
January 16, 1961
Japanese skier Kiyotaka Sakai, center, pins a good-will token on the lapel of Madison Mayor Ivan Nestingen, left. Looking on is Yukio Kasaya, also a skier from Japan. They will be participating in ...
National Civil Defense Week
August 27, 1956
Mayor Ivan Nestingen points out one of the civil defense decals which are being placed on all Madison buses. The decals state that the buses are pledged for emergency when needed. The bus driver is...
Madison Public Library Bookmobile
July 11, 1957
Mayor Ivan Nestingen; Head Librarian Helen Farr; and Library Board Member A. Kermit Frater stand outside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. An unidentified man is standing in the doorway insi...
American Business Women's Association Regional Brunch
July 22, 1956
Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visits with, left to right: Theresa Lohbauer, Madison; Martha Austin, St. Louis; and Edith Brandt (?), Madison at the regional brunch of the American Business Women's A...
Beautiful Madison, Inc.
August 30, 1956
Three members of Beautiful Madison, Inc. give a letter to Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated at desk) requesting a city ordinance against littering in Madison streets. Left to right: Glenn Groesbeck, sec...
