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Senior Law Students Tossing Canes

Date: 11 08 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin senior law school students toss their canes over the south goal post, a Badger tradition at the annual University of Wisconsin foot...
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Private George Grasser

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Private George Grasser, in foreground, checking in a stack of lessons which have come from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world, for Un...
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University of Wisconsin School for Workers

Date: 07 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U...
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UW Half Century Club

Date: 06 19 1948
Description: Max Mason, left, UW Class of 1898, Chairman of the council of Palomar Observatory in California, shown being welcomed by UW President E.B. Fred at the Univ...
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Legal Aid Society Staff

Date: 12 21 1948
Description: Mrs. Ken H. (Virginia) Taylor, secretary of the Madison Legal Aid Society, arranging a case file for William, Oshkosh, (seated) a University of Wisconsin l...
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Chef Carson Gulley and Apprentices

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig...
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Library School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of three-story building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi...
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Gimbel Brothers Art Competition

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Madison and University of Wisconsin artists carried off the major share of the prizes and awards in the 1949 Gimbel Brothers art competition. Seated, left...
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University of Wisconsin Recreation Students

Date: 11 23 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin recreation student Mary Ann Busch, Eagle River, receives a call for a student to lead games at a little girl's club. Glenn Gritzmac...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum of Evansville stands in the cafeteria line at Chadbourne Hall during the University of Wisconsin's high school music clinic.
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UW President E.B. Fred & Football Coaches

Date: 01 23 1951
Description: UW football Coach Ivan "Red" Williamson accepts a new salary agreement on behalf of his assistants and himself. Pictured left to right, are: President E.B....
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Senior Girl Scout Conference

Date: 03 12 1951
Description: Four youth make plans for the banquet and dance to be held at the Memorial Union as part of the Senior Girl Scout Conference of Southern Wisconsin and Nort...
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U.W. Houses Nursery and Play School

Date: 07 30 1951
Description: Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn...
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Tri Delta Pansy Breakfast

Date: 05 18 1952
Description: A couple enacting a bride and groom during the style show at the Tri Delta "Pansy Breakfast". Portraying the bride is Marilyn Navin, Tri Delta, and the gro...
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Ted Zillman

Date: 10 15 1954
Description: Portrait of Theodore Zillman sitting at his desk. Zillman is the University of Wisconsin Dean of men.
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Marian W. Engelke

Date: 12 19 1957
Description: Marian Engelke looks forward to a new career as a professional social worker. As part of the course work for her master's degree, she spends 20 hours a wee...
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We Saw You . . . Aiding Atwood Avenue Center

Date: 12 13 1958
Description: Member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at the University of Wisconsin took some of their free time to paint and repair at the Atwood Avenue Community Center. C...
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Press Interview with Senator Joseph McCarthy

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC...
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New Biography of Charles Richard Van Hise

Date: 12 07 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin President Conrad A. Elvehjem (left) receives the first copy of a new biography of the former university president, "Charles Richard...

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