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Girls in YWCA Camp Bunks

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Young girls posing on the top and bottom bunks at YWCA's Camparia Olbrich on Lake Mendota. In the upper bunk, left to right: Kathryn Eye, Barbara Fellows,...
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Clothing Drive Contest

Date: 05 01 1945
Description: Pupils of the Highlands-Mendota Beach School ran a clothing drive contest among school rooms and collected well over a truckload of clothing. Pictured are ...
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USO Service Club Interior

Date: 12 20 1945
Description: Two African American women at a counter in the USO Service Club. There is a Coca-Cola machine behind a counter. Probably taken in First Unitarian Society P...
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War Chest Day's Pay Pledge

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis...
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Community Center Young Adult Club

Date: 03 05 1947
Description: Francis Beecher and Dorothy Rawlings indulge in a drink and conversation celebrating the 1st Anniversary of the Community Center's Young Adult Club.
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Virginia Gibson (Mrs. Harley L.) and Jean M. Schilling (Mrs. William H.), members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group which sponsors the Nursery Sc...
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Cake Cutting at the Wisconsin Garden Club Jubilee

Date: 10 01 1952
Description: Margaret E. Garnett (Mrs. A.C.), of Madison, program chair of the convention, and Mrs. Linus Boehm of West Salem, president of the state federation, cuttin...
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Madison Diving Club Members

Date: 11 08 1956
Description: Madison Diving Club members Harold Stitgen, president, Reverend Herbert Schaak, treasurer, and James Filer dressed for scuba diving in Lake Mendota off Con...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: William Thorp and Hattie Reed bow their heads in prayer before Thanksgiving dinner is served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its Sunset Club.
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West High School Radio Club

Date: 10 31 1952
Description: Two members of the West High School radio club, Alan Frees and Bill Reeve, operating the club's "ham" station. Observing the young men are Henry Lugg, spo...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner.
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56...
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Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartoonist Walt Kelly talks with two men at the Sertoma Club luncheon.
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Baby Weigh-In before Baby Show

Date: 09 19 1952
Description: Brian Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Portage, being weighed by Inez Lee, assistant chairman of the American Legion Baby Show and Child Talent Cont...
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Empty Stocking Club Workers Arranging Toys

Date: 12 18 1952
Description: Empty Stocking Club workers, Sgt. Earl Nevin and Mrs. Alice Shores (holding a musical duck). Other workers behind them are Bill Doudna, Mrs. Lucille Knoche...
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Boys' High School Basketball Team

Date: 03 20 1953
Description: Group portrait of boys' high school basketball team, celebrating in the locker room with two coaches after a WIAA Basketball Tournament game.
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Boy Scout Sled Race

Date: 01 24 1953
Description: Group of boy scouts lined up for Klondike Derby sled race, where the boys pulled the sleds, on Monona Golf Course. Nearly 300 scouts from the Dane County a...
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Governor Walter Kohler and Polio Victims

Date: 01 07 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M...
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Sture and Geneva Johnson Residence

Date: 06 28 1955
Description: Geneva Johnson sits in the sunroom of her contemporary home at 313 New Castle Way in Maple Bluff. Her home will be featured on a July 14 Tour of Homes spon...

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