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Wisconsin Commission to Locate Monuments on the Gettysburg's Battlefield Site

Date: 05 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top.
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Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee standing in front of bandstand with musicians. Patriotic decorations provided by the ...
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Dormitories and Commons Committee

Date: 05 26 1937
Description: Group portrait of men in the Memorial Union Dormitories and Commons Committee on the steps of the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin.
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Playground Supervisors

Date: 06 15 1934
Description: Group portrait of fifteen men and ten women. They are playground supervisors hired by the Board of Education and Madison Park Commission to run nine full t...
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Senate Bribery Investigating Committee

Date: 02 12 1931
Description: Seated L to R: Senator Herman J. Severson, Senator Walter S. Goodland, chairman of the committee, and Oliver Knutson, clerk of the committee. Standing is E...
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War Chest Executive Committee

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Dane County Executive War Chest Committee, standing left to right: Martin Tollund, Mt. Horeb; Wilbur N. Renk Jr., Sun Prairie; Austin N. Johnson, Madison. ...
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Vocational School Christmas Seal Work Committee

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Members of the vocational school Christmas Seal work committee, and the departments they represent, are, left to right, (back row), Herbert Zindars, Trade ...
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Wisconsin Banking Commission

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W...
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Wisconsin Council of Agriculture

Date: 10 10 1944
Description: Group portrait of 7 men, probably the executive committee, members of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture: in no particular order, they probably are: C.F....
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Dane County Taft Supporters

Date: 03 04 1952
Description: Thirty five chairmen of the Dane County Taft Committee met at Kennedy Manor to map strategy for the Taft presidential campaign. Area leaders shown in this ...
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Group Portrait of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights

Date: 10 09 1947
Description: Members of Governor Oscar Rennebohm's Commission on Human Rights are shown outside of the Wisconsin State State Capitol for their first formal meeting.
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SNCC Group Near Burned Church

Date: 1962
Description: Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia.
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Richard Arrington, Jr.

Date: 10 1991
Description: Richard Arrington, Jr. (at the microphone), the first black to be elected mayor of Birmingham, speaks to a re-election rally. Among the supporters applaud...
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Christmas Ball Committee

Date: 12 07 1947
Description: Six committee members planning a Christmas Ball for university students and the "young married." Left to right: Margot Schmidt; Toby Sherry; Kathleen Kello...
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Fred Platner and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Co-workers

Date: 1946
Description: Fred Platner (far right, back row) and co-workers for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Bergen Belsen, Germany.
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Bethel Lutheran Church School Building Campaign

Date: 03 18 1949
Description: Group portrait of seven men involved in the Bethel Lutheran Church campaign to raise $100,000 in 100 weeks for a new Sunday school building. Seated left to...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: A.F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin elementary school is at his desk looking over Wisconsin State Journal Badger Spelling Bee material with two of h...
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State Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 15 1949
Description: The tournament committee for the Wisconsin women's golf association tournament gathers beneath a tree for a group portrait. The tournament was to be held a...
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Matiss Briedis Family

Date: 08 16 1949
Description: The Matiss Briedis family, from Latvia, with some of the Madison men and women who have found them a new home in Madison. Seated are Matiss, 42, former Lat...
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West Side Business Men's Association Auction Committee

Date: 09 07 1949
Description: Heads of the various committees who planned the auction for the West Side Business Association are shown, left to right, front row: Emmett Bergenske, aucti...

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