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| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Reverend Charles R. Bell Jr., pastor of the First Baptist church, breaks ground for the new Baptist Church to be constructed at 518 North Franklin Avenue a... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new elementary school building on the Edgewood campus are left to right, foreground: Mother Evelyn Mot... |
| Date: | 05 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar... |
| 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: | 06 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Rev. Louis Scheuring, pastor of St. James' Catholic Church, breaking ground for the new school after blessing the ground. Five altar boys assist Fr. Scheur... |
| 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: | 08 29 1959 |
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| Description: | A group gathering for the ground breaking ceremonies for the St. Thomas Aquinas parish auditorium. Rev. Arnold Lehman, pastor, shown with shovel; sacristan... |
| Date: | 08 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Mother Monica, superior of the convent and academy, turns over the first spadeful of ground during the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new motherhouse conv... |
| Date: | 05 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Breaking ground for the new Christ Presbyterian Church are John Wimberly, son of the pastor, and Miss Minnie Winifred Hastings, 420 S. Brooks Street, a lon... |
| Date: | 05 07 1961 |
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| Description: | The congregation of Covenant Presbyterian Church at the corner of Mineral Point and Segoe Roads holds a groundbreaking ceremony for the church's new $100,0... |
| Date: | 06 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Bobby Stolen, a member of Grace Lutheran Church, turns a spadeful of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Grace Lutheran Church at Rosa Road and Reg... |
| Date: | 05 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Two boys are sitting and standing next to a four-wheel utility vehicle that is hauling a cart of hay. They are facing a woman standing on the right who is ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1963 |
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| Description: | Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Returning from Work.' St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes. St. Francis, Wis." A group of six women holding implements and a nun are ... |
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