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Community Chest Board Members

Date: 01 20 1949
Description: Three women board members who are in charge of decorations for the 27th annual Community Chest dinner. From left are: Mrs. Werner Schaerff of the Girl Scou...
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Women in Safe Driving Class

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Charlotte Holmes (with tire) and Mrs. Lee (Marjorie) Edwards (with wrench) change a tire during a class session at Madison Vocational School's first post-w...
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Dual Control Driver Training Car

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Mrs. John (Adelin) Shiels seated at the wheel of Madison Vocational School's dual control car with instructor Kenneth Davies during the school's first post...
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House Fire Damage

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Ralph E. Mattison and his five-year-old daughter, Donna, examine the burned wall of their living room at 709 Orton Court.
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Teen-Agers Dating

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Charlene Schaefer and Ronnie Kurth attending a movie. Both are East High School Students. A man on the right is taking their tickets.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: People examining a home economics exhibit at the Farm and Home Week at the University of Wisconsin. From left are Ruth E. Davis, Port Washington; Mrs. Otto...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin associate professor Dr. Helen C. Dawe, (right) explaining how stringing colored wooden beads aids children's eye-hand coordination....
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Three rural Wisconsin women meet the governor's wife, Mary Rennebohm, at a reception given by the University president and his wife for the University of W...
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Madison Industrial Baseball League Officials

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Group portrait of nine of the officials and managers of the Madison Industrial Baseball League. Front row, (L to R): Eddie Corcoran, West Side Businessmen ...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Henry Schoephorster, Prairie du Sac, who attended the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week at the Madison campus.
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Race of Dimes

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Two children in wheelchairs, Jean Bokina, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bokina and right, Steven Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Freeman Butts, with ...
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City Skating Meet Stars

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: On the ice are eight Madison skaters who starred in the annual city skating meet held at Vilas Park lagoon. Kneeling in the first row are Patsy Gibson, Den...
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Madison Artists Exhibition Award Winners

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: Four award recipients from the University of Wisconsin at the Madison Artists exhibition. From left are Donald M. Anderson, art education instructor, water...
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Governor Rennebohm Welcomes French Vice Consul

Date: 02 13 1949
Description: French representatives arrived in Madison aboard the French Gratitude Train (Merci Train) and were welcomed at the Northwestern Depot by the governor and h...
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French Gratitude Train Boxcar

Date: 02 13 1949
Description: French Gratitude Train boxcar, (Merci Train) carrying gifts for the state of Wisconsin, on a flatbed truck on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol Bu...
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Wisconsin High School Students

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Barbara Doig, Marjorie Swanson, and Don Damon, Wisconsin High School students who are taking part in a drive to help young people in Europe.
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Retiring Asssistant Fire Chief S.C.A. Ratcliffe

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Assistant Fire Chief Sebastian C.A. Ratcliffe shaking hands with three fire fighters with whom he has teamed to fight many fires in Madison. The photograph...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Harriet Hass and her daughter Georgia Hass at the premiere performance of the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne play "I Know My Love" at the Wisconsin Union Theate...
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Two Women at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Sophie Steiger Roth, Madison, and her niece Ann Steiger of Oshkosh, at the premiere performance of the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne play "I Know My Love" at t...

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