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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Dove Flight Opens Christmas Seal Sale

Date: 11 20 1949
Description: Delores Wilkinson, member of the Madison Come-Back Club, and Sylvan Lipski, Milwaukee All-City Flying Club member are shown just before they released five ...
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U.S. Coast Guard Band

Date: 1943
Description: The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6...
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Boy Scout Christmas Tree Lot

Date: 12 08 1950
Description: Charles Amacker, left, and Kenneth Greve, members of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps, stand in front of the Corps' Christmas tree lot located in the 11...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: Scrap metal trucks travel along South Carroll Street during the Cambridge Scrap Metal Parade on the Capitol Square. The Park Hotel is in the background. Pr...
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Donation Collection for Panty Raid Damage

Date: 05 22 1952
Description: A University of Wisconsin coed donating to the "Eighth to Riot, First to Repair" drive for funds to repair damage caused during a series of panty raids on ...
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 06 28 1954
Description: Josephine Maloney lounging in her garden at her residence in the Highlands. The garden is included in the Attic Angel Garden Tour, an annual event to raise...
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 06 28 1954
Description: Vera Ford standing in her formal garden at her residence at 500 Farwell Drive in Maple Bluff. The garden is included in the Attic Angel Garden Tour, an ann...
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 06 28 1954
Description: Trees on the shoreline of Lake Mendota, part of the lawn belonging to the Maple Bluff home of H. Stanley and Mary Johnson at 17 Cambridge Court. Their home...
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 06 28 1954
Description: Gregor, a Great Dane dog, resting beside a stone wall in the garden of Mrs. S. L. Odegard in Fox Bluff. The Odegard garden is included in the Attic Angel H...
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Unitarian Meeting House Curtain

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Description: This view of a holiday fund raising event in the auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society meeting house shows the woven curtai...
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Politics Wisconsin Style

Date: 08 1990
Description: Grilling burgers and corn on the cob, all washed down with beer... a typical menu for a Wisconsin political fundraiser. This event was for State Senator Ru...
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Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 07 1956
Description: Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin, sports columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal, posing with six girls who raised money for the Roundy's Fun Fund by havi...
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Jaws of Life Fund Raiser

Date: 07 1988
Description: "Suzanne Erdman of Theresa State Bank and Fireman Chuck Trauba hold a sign showing progress of Theresa Fire Department's Jaws of Life Fund Raiser."
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Theresa Library Furnishings Fund

Date: 07 1989
Description: "Theresa library board members, Peggy Langenfeld, Sandy Merchant, Betty Bodden, and Ralph Widmer pose with a fund-raiser sign."
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Mrs. Norman Gill is standing and looking out of a window from inside her home at Spring Hill Farm near Cambridge, viewing the surrounding countryside and t...
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Verona Optimist Club Turkey Shoot

Date: 11 03 1957
Description: Jerry Hunt, left, and George Gust, both from Verona, looking at the location of the bull's eye on a target at the Verona Optimist Club turkey shoot. Funds ...
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Verona Optimist Club Turkey Shoot

Date: 11 03 1957
Description: Tom Daniels of Middleton aims his rifle at a target during the Verona Optimist Club turkey shoot. Funds raised will benefit the club's youth program.
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Verona Optimist Club Turkey Shoot

Date: 11 03 1957
Description: Three men attend the Verona Optimist Club turkey shoot. Thomas Mahoney of Waunakee pays his entry fee at right. At center, club member Farres Harrison coun...
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Panhellenic Alumnae Benefit

Date: 04 14 1959
Description: Members attending the Panhellenic Alumnae dessert, style show and bridge benefit at Nakoma Country Club. Attendees include, from left to right: Marylu Raus...

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