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Easter Church-Goers

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: Mrs. P. Houston adjusting a flower on the coat of daughter Marjorie on the way to Bethel Lutheran Church on Easter Sunday. Her other children are Howard, J...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: A mother and her four children enact a mental health situation revolving around stress in motherhood, raising a family, and sharing living space. The capti...
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Springtime at Vilas & Wingra Park

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Teddy (age 8) and William Buenzli (age 10) of 1820 Vilas Avenue enjoy a spring day flying homemade planes at Vilas Park.
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Zor Shrine Spring Ceremonial

Date: 05 04 1957
Description: Four Zor Shrine clowns entertain young girl Mary Farmiloe during the annual spring ceremonial at the Masonic Temple. The clowns are (left to right): Tom Ro...
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Boys Enjoy a Spring Day at the Fishing Pond

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Michael Larson of 1417 Fremont Avenue and Daniel O'Neill of 3114 Sherman Avenue try their fishing style amidst the trees at the Tenney Park lagoon.
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Madison Schools Safety Patrol Trip to Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Madison Schools students chosen as Safety Patrol members by their schools board the train to Washington, D.C. to attend the National Assembly of School Saf...
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Boys Play on the Beach at Vilas Park

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Keith Symon of 1816 Vilas Avenue (front) and John Hunt of 1813 Vilas Avenue (rear) building a sand castle at the Vilas Park beach on a spring day.
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We Saw You . . . at Youth Conference

Date: 04 25 1957
Description: Attending the 5th Annual Governor's Conference on Children and Youth at the U.W. Memorial Union are Keith Nelson (left) and Donald Dunbar (right) from Dodg...
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Boys Make Big Splash

Date: 05 15 1957
Description: Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Mary Gill, a member of the Madison Advisory Board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather agency, is about to put a hat on one of the three foster...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Edith and Lawrence Anderson have two foster children who are living with their family temporarily. Pictured are the Lawrence family with their two foster c...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Three boys are pressing their noses to the window of a pet shop on a busy Monroe Street, while viewing five rabbits. Two boys have their thumbs in their ea...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Jimmy Stein, Ed Stein's Son

Date: 07 1957
Description: Portrait of the baby son of Wisconsin State Journal photographer, Ed Stein. Jimmy Stein was born on June 8, 1956. He is sitting in a high chair and ...
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Shoe Shine Boys Win Appeal

Date: 06 28 1957
Description: City Clerk A. W. Bareis gets the first shine from Tom Sorensen after the boy and his partner, Dick McMahon (right), are told they can continue their street...
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City Playground Youngsters Catch Cameraman's Eye

Date: 06 29 1957
Description: Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag"). The boy on far left is finishing a toss.
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City Playground Youngsters Catch Cameraman's Eye

Date: 06 29 1957
Description: Two boys playing "washers" game at a city playground.

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