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South Side Men's Club Meeting

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Elton Hodge is pointing to his certificate and his badge of office as Dane County Defense Director while I.G. Trowbridge (left) and John F. Whitmore, club ...
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South Side Men's Club Meeting

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: The South Side Men's Club held a special meeting to honor members of the organization who have won their wings in Madison's Ground Observer Corps, a civil ...
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American Society of Tool Engineers Institute

Date: 11 19 1953
Description: Four men at coffee break at the Maple Bluff Country Club. From left to right are: Jack Murray and A.G. Hoffner from Gisholt Machine Company; Lt. Richard Go...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Left to right: Lt. Col. Robert J. and L...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Left to right: Lt. Col. Harry W. Shoup,...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Left to right: Capt. Russell Fredrickso...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Darlene Simmons is shown providing a "l...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Lt. R.A. Weber and Mrs. Weber chose a h...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Col. E.P. Archibald, commandant of the ...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Major William I. Ryrom, director of ma...
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Truax Field Control Tower

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: Edward C. Waffle, in charge of the tower for the Air Force, is talking with a pilot from the Truax Field control tower by speaking into a handheld radio tr...
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Madison Art Association Exhibit

Date: 10 15 1953
Description: Interested viewers at the preview for the Madison Art Association art exhibit in Scanlan Hall at the Vocational School were Lt. and Mrs. Olnar Olsen of Mil...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Second-Class Airman Joseph Narajka stationed at Truax Field studies another exhibit at the show as he tells his friend, Nancy Zimmerman (who lived on 1010 ...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Meek of Lodi cut short a Texas honeymoon, after their marriage March 15, to attend the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banqu...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: Victor Weisensel (of Sun Prairie), Leo R. Mullarkey (of Madison), and Harry C. Miller (of Sun Prairie) reminisce, during the banquet of the Annual Dane Cou...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: Three Madison diners at the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and 8-banquet were Mrs. Alex Drives, Circuit Judge Alvin C. Reis, and Mrs. Kathryn Nanker...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Firing Squad of the 520th Air Defense Group at the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square. The servicemen are aiming their rifles in the air as children...
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American Legion Convention at the Hotel Loraine

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: S.C. Hull, Milton Junction (left), and Bill McCunnell (of McFarland) are holding a poster promoting the Dane County American Legion 40 and 8 baseball excur...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Three new grand officers of the Wisconsin American Legion's 40 and 8 talking with Julius Severson (right foreground), retiring Grand Chef de Gare. At left ...

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