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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 05 08 1950 |
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| Description: | The cornerstone for the million-dollar four-story addition to the Madison Vocational School was laid at the corner of North Carroll and West Dayton Streets... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin... |
| Date: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Two officials of the Madison General Hospital Association and a workman are pictured with Mayor George Forester, far right, at the cornerstone laying prior... |
| Date: | 11 15 1951 |
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| Description: | New members of the Ray-O-Vac Company's 25 Year Club were initiated during ceremonies at the organization's annual banquet at Hotel Loraine. |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| 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: | 10 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Senior law students throw canes over the goalpost at the University of Wisconsin Homecoming Game against Iowa. Nearly one hundred students, including four ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of three negatives that make a panorama of University of Wisconsin graduates and families sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium during graduati... |
| Date: | 01 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John E. Wise) raises her hand while taking her oath of office before a robed judge. An audience looks on from the background. The origi... |
| Date: | 12 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Union Members are honored at a dinner at the Hotel Loraine. They include, from left: Harold Good, Lewis Higley, and Frank Cook. Joseph Frigerio (right), un... |
| Date: | 11 17 1958 |
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| Description: | The Uptown Kiwanis Club honored six outstanding Dane County farmers at its recent recognition meeting during National Farm-City Week. Shown (left to right)... |
| Date: | 01 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Phil Petta receives his 20-year button from Joseph J. Frigerio, right, a Chicago member of the Construction and General Laborers Union, at Local 464's banq... |
| Date: | 09 21 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of men gathering to lay the cornerstone for the new Glendale Community Baptist Church at 5020 Maher. The men include, left to right: Allen Strang, ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1959 |
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| Description: | At the completion ceremonies for apprentices moving on to journeymen in the building trades, are (left to right): master of ceremonies O.T. Harvey, Rev. J.... |
| Date: | 12 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Acting Postmaster for Madison, John F. Whitmore (right), receives a certificate of appointment from Adolph Knudson (left), postal department field services... |
| Date: | 11 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Senior law students toss canes over the goal post during the University of Wisconsin homecoming game against Northwestern. Tradition states that those who ... |
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