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YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 05 31 1961
Description: Peggy Moore is shown with the new sign which will mark the entrance to the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich on Lake Mendota.
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Stanley Herrling Farm

Date: 06 06 1961
Description: Brothers Greg, left, and Mark Herrling drive a four-wheel buggy pulled by two ponies down a driveway with the family home visible in the background. This i...
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American Field Service Exchange Students

Date: 08 05 1961
Description: A group of American Field Service exchange students posing outdoors.
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Students Cool Off in Water Fountain at University of Wisconsin Library Mall

Date: 07 17 1961
Description: Two University of Wisconsin students cool off in the Library Mall water fountain between the University Library and the State Historical Society building. ...
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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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Dress Up Day at City Playgrounds

Date: 07 20 1961
Description: Children in costumes line up as three mothers judge their costumes. The finalist contestants are dressed as assorted characters including a hula dancer, an...
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Centralites Women's Softball Team

Date: 08 16 1961
Description: Group portrait of the Centralites of the city Softball League. They were the League champions in 1961. Team members, left to right are: front row - Nancy M...
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University Of Wisconsin Students Chatting on Campus Lawn

Date: 09 06 1961
Description: Curtis Wittwer, a sophomore, and Marilee Meisnest, a junior, both from Manitowoc, sitting and chatting on a campus lawn.
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House Decorated for Christmas

Date: 11 21 1961
Description: Exterior view of the house of Jack Savidusky, 341 Kensington Drive, decorated for the Christmas holiday with lights and reindeer figures.
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
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Fitts Family Prepares to Move From Farm House

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Brick farm house on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road (the old Carl Meyer place). Rented to the George Meyer family in 1961.
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New Buildings on the University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 09 03 1964
Description: One of the new buildings is the $4.3 million Russell Laboratories on Linden Drive. It houses the departments of entomology, plant pathology, forestry and w...
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Home Demolition on West Washington Avenue

Date: 12 01 1964
Description: A bulldozer demolishing five homes in the four hundred block of West Washington Avenue to make room for a six-story office building to be the Wisconsin hea...
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Booming Artificial Christmas Tree Market

Date: 12 17 1964
Description: Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th...
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Opening of Madison Public Housing

Date: 12 30 1964
Description: One of 36 new apartments at the Truax Field Madison public housing site. It is one of four public housing sites in Madison providing 160 units for those el...
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View of Warner Park

Date: 05 1965
Description: Elevated view from Lake View Sanatorium looking south over Mendota Hills sub-division and Warner Park.
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Bethany Methodist Church Hosting Conference

Date: 06 08 1965
Description: Three men standing next to large sign with the words "Bethany Methodist Church Welcomes the West Wisconsin Annual Conference June 8th-11th. Left to right a...
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U.W. Fraternities See Increase in Pledges

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Members are shown playing touch football on the lawn at the Theta Chi fraternity. The 32 fraternities pledged 507 new members for the fall semester, a 23% ...

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