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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
Postcard

Jackson Street

Date: 1910
Description: Residential view of Jackson Street. A person is standing in the street with a bicycle, and two people are walking along the sidewalk on the right. Caption ...
Photograph

Bicycle Riding Tests

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School students being tested for riding skills in front of the school, 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spaight Street.
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Girl Signaling During Bicycle Riding Test

Date: 03 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, a girl in a flowered skirt, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is al...
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Woman with Bicycle

Date: 1896
Description: Woman sitting on a bicycle in front of a stoop with metalwork railing. Another bicycle sits on the porch behind her. She is wearing a hat, and a long skirt...
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Jenk and Dick with Bikes

Date: 1917
Description: Jenkin and Dick Lloyd Jones stand with their bicycles on Walker Court.
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Dick on His Bike

Date: 1918
Description: Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones riding his bicycle in front of 1011 Walker Court (now 1011 Rutledge Court).
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Boy Signaling During Bicycle Test

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, signaling a left turn, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along S...
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Girl Riding Down Street for Bicycle Test

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School girl student being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spaight Street. A gr...
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Bicycle Test for Marquette School Student

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Side view of a Marquette School student being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spaight St...
Photograph

Boy Signaling During Bicycle Test

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, signals a left turn, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spa...
Poster

"What's Happening on W. Mifflin Street?"

Date: 03 14 1971
Description: Poster advertising the story of "Madison's hippie haunts" in Insight Magazine and the Milwaukee Journal. Features a street view of West Miffl...
Photograph

University Houses Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: Children of University of Wisconsin faculty living in University Houses at Eagle Heights are costumed as Native Americans, cowboys, and flowers are marchin...
Photograph

Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade Costume Winners

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Girl costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Mar...
Photograph

Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade Costume Winners

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Boy costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Jon...
Photograph

Young Woman with a Bicycle

Date: 
Description: Mrs. Annie Coon stands in a front yard with a bicycle, probably on the 400 block of West Washington Avenue. A long line of trees grow along the street of t...
Photograph

F.D. Eyerley and Daughter

Date: 1897
Description: F.D. Eyerley crouches down to give his daughter a kiss. A bicycle is propped against a wooden fence which runs the perimeter of the front yard of the West ...
Photograph

Shepard Terrace Fourth of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1952
Description: A lineup of over twenty costumed children assembled along 2620 Chamberlain Street in the Shepard Terrace neighborhood. They had performed a circus for Roun...
Photograph

Westmorland Fourth of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1952
Description: Some of the 300 children who took part in the Westmorland Fourth of July Parade line up on a narrow tree-lined Westmorland Boulevard. 3,000 people took par...
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Madison Bicycle Safety Week Parade

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Ten-year-old David Paepke, Sauk City, is pictured with the new Sears Roebuck and Company bicycle he won in the Madison Bicycle Safety Week slogan competiti...

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