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State Tax Office Activity at Tax Deadline

Date: 04 13 1961
Description: A mother with her baby and young son is working on her tax form at the state tax office in the City-County building as the tax deadline nears.
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East Side Businessmen's Association Festival at Voit Field

Date: 06 29 1961
Description: It is Children's Day at the East Side Businessman's Festival at Voit Field. About 10,500 people attended the festival on its first day. A youngster stands...
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Fourth of July Activities

Date: 07 04 1961
Description: M.M. (Dusty) Rhodes barbecues chicken outdoors as his daughter watches.
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Dress Up Day at City Playgrounds

Date: 07 20 1961
Description: Two children walking home carrying their costumes following a Dress Up Day celebration at a city playground.
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Summer Projects for Bored Children

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: Kathleen Hall, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hall of 4321 Hegg Avenue, creates a design with colored toothpicks as a summer project in answer to the...
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Summer Projects for Bored Children

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: Seven year old Melissa Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hall of 4321 Hegg Avenue, creates a colored placemat using crayon shavings as a summer projec...
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Summer Projects for Bored Children

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: Nine year old Kevin Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hall of 4321 Hegg Avenue, creates a splatter painting as a summer project in answer to the question: ...
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Jaycettes Plan 12th Annual Benefit Style Show

Date: 08 03 1961
Description: The Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary (Jaycettes) plan for their 12th annual benefit style show held in the University of Wisconsin Union Theate...
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Fireside Pancake House Party

Date: 08 30 1961
Description: Looking at a menu at an open house and party at the Fireside Pancake House, 625 State Street, is Jimmy Jansen, 3. The open house is sponsored by the restau...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Betty Anderson is serving her daughter Lori a piece of the "500 Cake" which won the Grand Prize in the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest.
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Captain Robert C. Burns' wife Carol and sons Bruce and Terry are sitting together. Captain Burns has been called up for active dut...
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Staff Sargent Paul A. Haack's wife Margaret and two sons are playing in a front yard with a dog. Staff Sargent Haack was called up...
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Wisconsin National Guard Wives

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Wisconsin National Guard Lieutenant Colonel John D. Winner's wife Marcelaine and children sitting together for a group portrait. He was called up for activ...
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Red Feather Adoption Agencies

Date: 10 10 1961
Description: Clarendon and Elaine Bradley and their two adopted children; Bruce, age 4 and 6 year-old Carla. They adopted them through the Lutheran Welfare Society, a R...
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Red Feather Adoption Agencies

Date: 10 10 1961
Description: Timothy and Helen Matthews with their seven month old adopted son, Timothy John. They adopted their child through the Catholic Welfare bureau, a Red Feathe...
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Red Feather Adoption Agencies

Date: 10 10 1961
Description: Dean and Betty Colden with their two adopted children; David, age three years and one year old Sally. The couple adopted their children through the Childre...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Lutheran Welfare Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. The society facilitates the adoption of children into families such as the one pictured, find...
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YWCA Girls Camp Indoors

Date: 11 02 1961
Description: Jennifer Jueds is shown enjoying milk and a hot dog as she relaxes on her "bed" in the gymnasium of the YWCA. She is one of 49 girls who spent 24 hours cam...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Madison Area Retardation Council is one of 29 United Givers agencies. Some of the services the council provides for the mentally retarded are sheltered...
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YWCA Girls Camp Indoors

Date: 11 02 1961
Description: Patty McCutchin is shown attentively listening to a story while resting on a bedroll in the gym of the YWCA. Other pajama-clad girls are nearby reading or ...

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