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Mendota State Hospital Award Presentation

Date: 01 16 1944
Description: Ralph Runge, Local #1 Chairman of the WSDA membership committee, presenting the President Zander Membership Cup to Jay D. Ferguson, Chairman of the winning...
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Nellie Tayloe Ross Speaking in Assembly Chambers

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former Wyoming Governor, speaking in the Assembly Chambers, on behalf of the Roo...
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Menominee Tribal Restoration

Date: 04 22 1975
Description: Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo...
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Willie Rudd

Date: 1991
Description: Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i...
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Fred Platner with Staff of Joint Distribution Committee's Emigration Office

Date: 1950
Description: Fred Platner and staff of the Joint Distribution Committee's emigration office; Hamburg, Germany.
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder...
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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater...
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Zonta Scholarship Winners

Date: 12 18 1951
Description: Paul I. Trump, left, is shown presenting a Madison Zonta Club scholarship award to Louise Yanke of Milwaukee, right, while the two other recipients of the ...
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Americanization Pageant

Date: 08 31 1953
Description: Three members of the Madison Council of Church Women executive board examine brochures with Jessie Kriel, the Americanism chairman of the Madison Woman's C...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 08 27 1953
Description: U.W. chemistry professor M. Leslie Holt and his wife Gretchan check the proofs of a new book for which he is an assistant editor. Gretchan is in charge of ...
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Governor Earl

Date: 08 1985
Description: Governor Anthony Earl testifying before a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. Because the committee was headed by David R. Obey he was able to bring t...
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NAACP Members Admire Prize Book

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Five people admire a book entitled "Go South To Sorrow" which will be given as a prize for the NAACP's Madison branch membership drive at the annual freedo...
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Women of the Moose Give Nursing Scholarship

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: The hospital committee of the Madison Chapter, No. 291, of the Women of the Moose present a scholarship to a student nurse in a Madison hospital. Shown, le...
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Phi Chi Theta Convention

Date: 06 15 1958
Description: Joyce Hittenberger (left), Berkeley, California, the new national president; Mary Seymour, retiring national president; Janet Bruhn, general chairman of th...
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Phi Chi Theta Convention

Date: 06 14 1952
Description: Group portrait of Madison women who took part in arrangements for the national convention of Phi Chi Theta, a women's commerce organization. Seated, left t...
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Phi Chi Theta Convention

Date: 07 14 1957
Description: Committee members in charge of Phi Chi Theta national convention arrangements are, from left to right: Vivian Nissley; Mrs. Norman Olson, Cottage Grove; Ga...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Annual Meeting

Date: 10 15 1958
Description: View of the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Pictured are members of the public relations committee, fro...
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Garden Convention Planning Committee

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Members of the regional banquet committee plan the state and regional convention of the Federated Garden Clubs which will be held in Genoa City. Sitting in...
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Committee Plans Madison Women's City Golf Tournament

Date: 01 25 1961
Description: A committee begins to plan Madison Women's 1961 City Golf Tournament at the Community Center. Shown (from left) are: Mrs. Jane Brandt, Public Links Courses...

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