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Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: Three shoppers and two youngsters showing how you lean "left to buck the wind" when you cross Monona Avenue at the Capitol Square.
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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Lloyd Hansen is acting as a sal...
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson snuggled in bed ready to dream of Christmas toys before visiting the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ...
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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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Hey Goblins, You'd Better Watch Out

Date: 10 26 1957
Description: "Free punki'ns" are being given to children by the Madison Sears store and the Y Men's Club of the YMCA. The pumpkins are to be carved and entered in a con...
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Women Hugging Two Children on Capitol Square

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: An unidentified woman hugging two children while standing on the Capitol Square across the street from the Park Hotel. At the corner of the Park Hotel on t...
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Republican Picnic at Burrows Park

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: Some of the 200 attendees at the hot dog stand in Burrows park for the picnic sponsored by the Dane county Republican Women and the Young Republicans. From...
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Two Baby Penguins

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: Onlookers look at two new baby penguins in the display window at the Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig store on Madison's Capitol square. They will later by taken t...
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Ice Cream Brings Quick Young Friends

Date: 05 28 1959
Description: Upwards of 700 children were treated to free ice cream and potato chips by Lawrence Rich (right foreground) at the rear of his grocery store at 2633 Commer...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New Sun Prairie third grade teacher Diane Schmitt shops for groceries on her way home from school. The cashier is Carl Conrad and the man in the background...

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