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| Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine pontifical field mass held at Breese Stevens Field. The Most Reverend John Treacy, bishop of the La Crosse ... |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Party in honor of Edward (son of Eva Lauffer Deutschkron), Deutschkron's Bar Mitzvah, at Deutschkron's. Children, from left: Debbie Stern (cousin), Bruce W... |
| Date: | 05 03 1950 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Charles R. Bell Jr., pastor of the First Baptist Church, is assisted by a group of church officials as he lays the cornerstone for the new bui... |
| Date: | 05 07 1950 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers in front of the partially constructed new building for Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago at First Street. The existing church buildin... |
| Date: | 03 25 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the groundbreaking ceremony for Westminster Presbyterian Church at 4100 Nakoma Road. The homes across the street inclu... |
| Date: | 10 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the Westminster Presbyterian church assist in the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new church at 4100 Nakoma Road. Kneeling are James G. Mars... |
| Date: | 06 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Former Governor Oscar Rennebohm turns the first shovelful of earth for the new Eagles Hall to be built on the site of the old Marquette School at 1232 Jeni... |
| Date: | 05 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Nakoma Welfare League member, some standing, others sitting on blankets on the ground while viewing the ceremony to install new officers. The ceremony took... |
| Date: | 04 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Four men with shovels turn over the first shovels full of earth at 611 Langdon Street, the site of the new Jewish student center. "Left to right are Rabbi ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1959 |
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| Description: | The American flag is raised on the flagpole in front of the new St.James Catholic grade school on St. James Court. More than 300 pupils stand for the flag ... |
| Date: | 05 10 1959 |
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| Description: | More than twelve people in their Sunday clothes gathering in an open lot at Gilbert Road and Tolman Terrace to note the start of construction of their chur... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Ten men are standing near a pit, which is in the foreground. All but one of the men are wearing suits, and several are holding shovels or pickaxes. Two men... |
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