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| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Children riding decorated tricycles and baby carriages in a fourth of July parade with adults lining the street behind them. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Jack Rickert is painting words "1946 Pop. 2800" on the side of a Fourth of July Garden Queen Float. Above the painted sign the float is decorated with a pi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Five girls dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. The girls are standing in a row and each of the girls has a num... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A line of girls dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. The girls are standing in a long line and each of the girl... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Four girls standing in a row dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. Each of the girls has a number around her arm... |
| Date: | 02 19 1940 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. A crowd of children and adults is watching from a snowbank ... |
| Date: | 02 11 1941 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. The man is holding the woman almost parallel to the ice whi... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Wildflowers next to the side yard and the front steps of a house. |
| Date: | 12 1938 |
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| Description: | A device spraying water to create an ice rink. The rink was 115 x 200 ft. and was opened sometime during Christmas week 1938. There are houses and pedestri... |
| Date: | 07 05 1938 |
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| Description: | A recently planted sapling in the backyard of an empty house, with other houses and roads visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The front entrance of the Greendale Theater with other storefronts visible. The marquee reads "Greendale Theater, Air Conditioned For Comfort, New Show Eve... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction workers placing rebar in the foundation of a house in preparation for concrete to be poured. |
| Date: | 06 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Henry Wallace walking out of a building with other men in the background. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visited and toure... |
| Date: | 06 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Henry Wallace, between two men, talking outdoors near an automobile. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visited and toured Gre... |
| Date: | 06 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Henry Wallace, on right, talking to two men in front of the community center building. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visi... |
| Date: | 06 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Henry Wallace meeting with a number of men and one young girl. A garden and residences can be seen in the background. Henry Wallace, then the United States... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | First floor of a two-story house that is in the middle of being constructed. Other duplexes and houses are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Large group of construction workers walking through neighborhood of houses that are in the middle of being constructed. |
| Date: | 02 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Marshall high school gained basketball title honors in the Madison Suburban League for the sixth time in the 24-year history of the circuit. Coach Leonard ... |
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