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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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Westport St. Mary's of the Lake 7th Annual Harness Racing and Horse Show

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: Dick (12) and Pauline (11) Hellenbrand tour the Westport St. Mary's of the Lakes Catholic Church prior to the 7th Annual St. Mary's of the Lakes Harness Ra...
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We Saw You . . . at Bible School

Date: 07 19 1957
Description: Children attend the summer Bible school session at the Midvale Community Lutheran Church on 4329 Tokay Boulevard. Bowing their heads in prayer, they are (l...
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We Saw You . . . at Bible School

Date: 07 19 1957
Description: Children attend the summer Bible school session at Midvale Community Lutheran Church at 4329 Tokay Boulevard. Shown doing an art project are (left to right...
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We Saw You . . . at Bible School

Date: 07 19 1957
Description: Children attend the summer Bible school session at Midvale Community Lutheran Church at 4329 Tokay Boulevard. Shown singing are 1st-grade teacher Mrs. P. J...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad shows her older brother, Jimmy, how neatly she can write her name. They will be students at the Rockdale School near Cambridge the day afte...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Stoughton physician Dr. Rodney K. Peterson checking the ear of Barbara Notstad during a pre-school medical examination while her mother is looking on. Barb...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Orlow R. Notstad reads to his four children in their farm home near Cambridge. His two oldest, Jimmy and Barbara, will be elementary students at the Rockda...
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Catey Doyle with Harvey the Mina bird

Date: 08 30 1957
Description: "Whooopee, whoopee! Is it true, is it true?" says Harvey, a Mina bird cared for by ten-year old Catey Doyle and owned by Professor John T. Emlen (of 2122 V...
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Randy Schwenn's First Day of School

Date: 09 10 1957
Description: Randy Schwenn at Marquette School on his first day in Mrs. Delores Platter's first-grade class.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Hotel Loraine

Date: 09 13 1957
Description: The national Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) holds their annual convention at the Hotel Loraine. Mrs. Fred J. Tooze (of Portland, Oregon), WCTU n...
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Green Bay Boy Recovering from Heart Surgery

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Jeffrey McVeigh, age 5 from Green Bay, recovering from a five-hour operation at University Hospital to repair a hole in the inner walls of his heart. He is...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper boy Malcolm Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, dressing before dawn to prepare for completing his daily newspaper route. The hands on his alarm clock i...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Malcolm Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, depositing his delivery earnings with Janet Simon at the Anchor Savings and Loan Company downtow...

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