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Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps have set up a lot to sell Christmas trees at the Gisholt Machine Company. Lloyd Hansen is acting as a sal...
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Yule Tea for Homemakers Club Members

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Five-year-old Kristine Johnson holding a handmade Santa Claus doll at the Christmas tea for Dane County Homemakers Clubs.
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Christmas is Sharing

Date: 12 01 1957
Description: One of the dozens of Madison baby-sitters who give part of their earnings to the Empty Stocking Club is 13-year-old Julie Reynoldson, daughter of Mrs. and ...
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State Capitol Christmas Tree

Date: 12 20 1957
Description: A view from above of the tall decorated 34-foot balsam tree in the Capitol Building rotunda. The tree was grown in Marquette County and purchased from the ...
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Here members of Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta welcomed a group of happy youngsters at Neighborhood House located at 29 South Mills Street. The party i...
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Kappa Sigma fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority members are entertaining a group of children, who each were given numerous presents. In the center, a...
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Silhouette of a young girl attending a holiday party looking through a window onto a front porch at Kappa Sigma house on Langdon Street. "Merry Christmas" ...
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Christmas Hats at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 12 18 1957
Description: Elsa Johnson looks up at a hat topped with a large wheeled carriage worn by Betty Berst. Johnson was style show chairman for 1957. Berst was the Maple Bluf...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Help...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to fight tuberculosis. Volunteers, shown w...
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Karen Nielsen, a native from Denmark, lights candles in a Christmas decoration she made for her dinner table.
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Margaret Stephan making a batch of her favorite "Almond Crisps" cookies.
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We Saw You . . . Selling Christmas Trees

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Emil Zentner sells Christmas trees over the telephone from the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps parents group tree lot located at the Midvale Plaza Shop...
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Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Santa on a reindeer rocking horse.
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Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Jimmy Stein (age 2) on a rocking horse.
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Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Laurie Stein (age 5) on a rocking horse.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Dennis Bayles, his son-in-law, Le Verne Kirking, and two of the Kirking children, Ann Denise and Duane, trudging through the snow to cut pine branches from...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Observing a family tradition that the height of all children are measured each Christmas season on the sliding oak door between the parlor and dining room,...
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Annual Rounder's Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 18 1958
Description: Four men who attended the annual Rounder's Club Christmas party hold an Empty Stocking Club envelope that was used as a place card. Left to right are: Ray ...
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Annual Rounder's Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 18 1958
Description: Six attendees to the annual Rounder's Club Christmas party. Front row, left to right, are: Al Satterfield, A.W. Bareis, and Olaf Strand. Back row, left to ...

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