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Boxers Posing with their Coach

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Description: Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ...
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Morey's Speedy Delivery

Date: 04 22 1934
Description: Howard Morey delivering the film "Hell's Holiday" to R.E. Mutchler of American Legion Post No. 57 for Parkway Theatre. (The man in the top coat is unidenti...
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DVA Women on Fire Truck

Date: 02 23 1933
Description: Group of Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary women on a fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 S. Webster Street. On the far left i...
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Boy Scout Recognition

Date: 02 24 1948
Description: Scout Charles Anderson is being presented with a $500 check by Edward Fischer, Sheriff of Dane County, safety director and past commander of the Veterans o...
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American Legion Commandres

Date: 03 01 1948
Description: James F. O'Neil, center, pictured with Governor Oscar Rennebohm, left, and Herman C. Runge, department commander. O'Neal was the top speaker, Rennebohm was...
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Mount Horeb Baseball Team

Date: 08 19 1948
Description: Mt. Horeb St. Ignatius baseball team, undefeated champions of the 1948 Dane County CYO League. In the background is a church.
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Members of the Loyal Temperance League

Date: 05 07 1927
Description: At a convention of the Fond du Lac County chapters of the Loyal Temperance League, some of the children present for a group picture hold up a sign that say...
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Boy Scouts Ring Replica of Liberty Bell

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Boy Scouts ring a replica of the Liberty Bell to launch the three year progam of Wisconsin Boy Scouts. The bell stands in the Wisconsin State Historical So...
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Disabled American Veterans (DAV)

Date: 03 19 1952
Description: The Wisconsin State Journal was awarded a citation for its "distinguished service in reporting the news of veterans" by the Madison DAV chapter. Her...
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Peace Activist David Cline

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Description: David Cline, a Vietnam War veteran and a national leader in Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, talking to a woman at a Memorial Day c...
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American Legion Parade

Date: 07 17 1954
Description: The Racine Post No. 76 drum and bugle corps receives a salute as they pass the reviewing stand during the American Legion parade around the Capitol Square....
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American Legion Parade

Date: 07 18 1954
Description: The La Crosse Drum and Bugle Corps takes part in the American Legion parade around Capitol Square. The Park Hotel is in the background.
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American Legion March

Date: 1973
Description: "American Legion members march up Main Street."
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Edward L. Cossette American Legion Band

Date: 1936
Description: Group portrait of eleven men wearing hats, shirts and bow ties standing outdoors holding drum sticks behind eight drums. The two large drums in the center ...
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American Legion Auxiliary Flag Presentation

Date: 02 22 1956
Description: Three flags are presented to the Brownie troops at Schenk School by members of the American Legion Auxiliary. Madelynn Suthers, president of the auxiliary ...
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Neighborhood House Album: Camp Fire Girls

Date: 1934
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Camp Fire Girls posing on and around a sofa. The Camp Fire Girls was one of many youth group...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Camp Fire Girls and Indian "Chief"

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress...
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Telephone Survey About Cancer

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre...
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National Forest Products Research Society Conference

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: Two military commanders visiting at the luncheon meeting of the National Forest Products Research Society. Brig. General William H. Wise (left) is of the 3...

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