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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Zoo keeper Almar Baker drags a baby alligator from its winter pen in the lion house basement at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Zoo keepers Jess Butler and Dale Coyler carry an alligator from the winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas park zoo.
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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A Big 'Pipe Job'

Date: 05 27 1959
Description: It takes a special "plumber" to put together pipes the size of these being installed in the heating tunnel under construction on N. Charter Street to carry...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 1960. Sixteen were captured right away but it took until D...
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New Samuel Gompers Elementary School

Date: 09 19 1960
Description: Charles Henriksen, Baraboo, is shown laying floor tile in the new Samuel Gompers Elementary School under construction at 1502 Wyoming Way on the northeast ...
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We Saw You . . . at Edgewood's De Ricci Hall

Date: 09 14 1960
Description: A painter puts on the finishing touches in a classroom in the new De Ricci Hall building on the Edgewood College campus, 855 Woodrow Street, as Sister M. T...
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Madison Street Department Crew Cleaning Leaves from Gutter

Date: 10 21 1960
Description: A Madison street department crew cleans leaves from the gutter along Mandan Crescent using a leaf vacuum machine as neighborhood children watch. Workers ar...
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We Saw You . . . at Hospital Auixiliary Meeting

Date: 02 13 1961
Description: The annual meeting of the Women's Auxiliary at Madison General Hospital, 925 Mound Street, is held at the hospital. Three hospital staff members help coord...

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