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"Beware of Fire" Play Cast

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Draper School sixth grade students dressed in costumes for "Beware of Fire" play for fire prevention week.
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School Safety Patrol Officer

Date: 06 17 1937
Description: Outdoor portrait of a Lincoln School boy in safety patrol officer uniform.
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Safety Patrol Boys

Date: 05 19 1937
Description: Harry Stiles and Converse Hettinger, two school safety patrol boys from Portage, Wisconsin, on their way to a national safety patrol conclave in Washington...
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Lifeguard Tom Langlois in a rowboat is issuing a warning to James Bergman who is swimming outside the ropes that delineate the safe swimming area.
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Randall School Area

Date: 1928
Description: View of the Randall School area, showing special street traffic signs on the road at the school crossing. In addition there are numerous children visible o...
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Randall School

Date: 1928
Description: View from across the street of the Randall School on Regent Street. Special street signs on the road are visible. A group of students appear to be waiting ...
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Safety Patrol Members

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the members of the Father Petti School (St. Raphael congregation) safety patrol crossing guards: Left to right: first row: Dick ...
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Traffic Officer Hector Naze with Second Grader Freddy Milverstedt

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Traffic officer Hector Naze, who directs morning traffic at the corner of Johnson and State Streets, is shown explaining the crossing rules to seven-year o...
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Paoli Grade School Class

Date: 02 05 1951
Description: Dane County Traffic Lieutenant Arden C. Pope teaches grade school students the rules of riding bicycles and walking safely on highways.
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Paoli Grade School Safety Patrol Program

Date: 02 05 1951
Description: As Paoli grade school children watch, Lieutenant Arden C. Pope, head of the Dane County traffic safety division, presents badges and belts for school patro...
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Madison Bicycle Safety Week Parade

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Ten-year-old David Paepke, Sauk City, is pictured with the new Sears Roebuck and Company bicycle he won in the Madison Bicycle Safety Week slogan competiti...
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School Safety Patrol

Date: 12 27 1956
Description: Three girls wearing Wisconsin Safety Patrol t-shirts and belts pretending to show a girl that it is all right to cross the street.
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Bicyle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: A girl and a boy, both wearing crowns, are posing on the open back of a convertible top automobile. They are the queen and king of the Bicycle Safety Week ...
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Bicycle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: More than 20 children sit on decorated bicycles as part of the 200 children who paraded around the square as 1,500 persons watched during the Bicycle Safet...
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Safety Patrol Members Leave for Washington

Date: 05 11 1960
Description: 32 Madison area school safety patrol members leave from the AAA Office at 103 North Hamilton Street for Washington, D.C. to join the largest Wisconsin dele...
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Bicycle Safety Week King and Queen

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: King John Thacher and Queen Dianne Bystol posing while wearing crowns and capes. They were winners of the slogan contest.
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Winners of Bike Safety Week Slogan Contest

Date: 06 18 1961
Description: The Bike Safety Week dinner held at the Cuba Club Supper Club honors the king and queen of Bike Safety Week. Bike slogan winners shown are John Troia, son ...
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Wisconsin Division of American Automobile Association Traffic Safety Posters

Date: 09 03 1964
Description: Arthur Wichern, public relations director for the Wisconsin division of the American Automobile Association (AAA), and Sergeant Jack R. Geiwitz, Monona pol...
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Madison Safety Patrol Delegates Prepare to Leave for Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Madison's 31 delegates, representing Madison public and parochial schools, prepare to travel to the Annual National School of Safety patrol assembly in Was...

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