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Forest Products Laboratory Workers Honored

Date: 04 24 1948
Description: Forest Products Laboratory workers are honored in a ceremony. They received a silver superior service award in recognition of laboratory employees during W...
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Madison Business Association Members

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Louis Heindel (left), Madison Business Association president, presented plaques to Edwin J. Connor, Emery Oliver, and Louis Hirsig in recognition of outsta...
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Community Chest Officials

Date: 09 15 1948
Description: Three officials of the Madison Community Chest drive shown examining two awards at the "kick-off" meeting for the advance gifts division. At left is Theron...
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Governor Rennebohm Accepting Safety Award

Date: 09 07 1948
Description: Thomas N. Boate, public safety director of the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, presents an award to Wisconsin for its high place in the train...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Honored by Viennese

Date: 11 26 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm was honored by the citizens of Vienna, Austria, for Wisconsin citizens' contributions to the "American Silent Guest committee" of ...
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Doudna and Salisbury

Date: 12 03 1948
Description: "Bill Doudna, State Journal newscaster, was honored for his promotion of child safety on his 7:30 a.m. broadcast on WIBA." Robert Salisbury, directo...
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Lee Baron, "Outstanding Young Man"

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Lee Baron, of Baron Brothers Department Store, being congratulated by his boss, Joe Rothschild, on being selected Madison's "outstanding young man" of 1948...
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Central High School Students Honored

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Central high school honor students June Cleary, winner of the DAR Good Citizenship award for her school, and Walter Northrup, recipient of the Veterns of F...
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State High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 10 1949
Description: Guy Sundt (left) and Paul F. Neverman (right) were paid tribute for their quarter of a century of service to the WIAA state high school basketball tourname...
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Izaak Walton League Award Ceremony

Date: 03 19 1949
Description: Members of the Izaak Walton League presenting the member-at-large award to Fred Luening of Milwaukee for his work in conservation. In the photograph are, l...
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WSJ Purchase Award Winner

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: "Robert Paterson, Oshkosh, won the Wisconsin State Journal's purchase award of $25 in the 21st annual U.W. student art show. Here he is with his wat...
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Harold F. McCormick with 4-H Award Winner

Date: 12 30 1935
Description: Harold F. McCormick and William E. Hamilton sitting at a table at a 4-H Club award event. The original caption reads: "Harold F. McCormick, Chairman of the...
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Sister M. Jeanette, O.P.

Date: 1944
Description: Sister M. Jeaneatte, pharmacist for Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New York, posed by medicine dispensers. Sister M. Jeanette was a recipient of the ...
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Madison Navy Recruiting Center Receiving Award

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Navy recruiters of the Madison sub-station are presented a banner and certificate of merit for leading the Chicago area district in number of enlistments f...
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Jane Addams

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well as the American Ci...
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UNICO Scholarship Winners

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: Emil Santacrosse, left, national vice-president of UNICO, shown presenting scholarship awards to Josephine Raimondo of Central High School, and John Troia,...
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American Red Cross Badges

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: Ethel Bohon, center, and Corinne Mennes, right, receive American Red Cross nurses' badges in recognition for their service. Presenting the award, at left, ...
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Gimbel Brothers Art Competition

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Madison and University of Wisconsin artists carried off the major share of the prizes and awards in the 1949 Gimbel Brothers art competition. Seated, left...
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Lieut. Walter Thompson Recieving Kemper Foundation Award

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Lieut. Walter Thompson, an officer with the Madison police force, receiving the $650 Kemper Foundation fellowship check to attend the traffic police admini...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winners

Date: 07 28 1949
Description: Phil Lenhart and Warren Slightam, Soap Box Derby winners, are awarded sports jackets (letterman jackets) by Johnny Casey, manager of the boys' department a...

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