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Teens at Clothing Drive

Date: 04 20 1945
Description: Five high school teenagers at the LOFT, donating used clothing to the Dane County clothing drive. The teenagers, left to right, are Bob Drake, Gene Bliss, ...
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First Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 07 1948
Description: Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, riding on a float in a parade in her hometown.
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National Book Week

Date: 11 16 1948
Description: "Books Tell the Story" display at Wisconsin High School as part of the observance of National Book Week. Students looking at display are, left to right: Ph...
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Junior Red Cross Council Toy Drive

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: Fritz Hanson, Peggy Huiskamp, and Winifred Grant of Wisconsin High School, are shown checking on the drive for toys which the school's Junior Red Cross Cou...
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High School Driver Training

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: Willis Jones gives instructions to Doris Johnson, seated in the driver's seat of a dual control driver training car, and Grace Goldburg during the behind-t...
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Teen-Agers at Summer Jobs

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Madison teenagers J. Ludger Parr and Jim Graham dispense cokes to Carma Rae Chapman and Sheila Ryan at a local drug store as they work at their summer jobs...
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"Let's Go North For A South Victory"

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ...
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West High School Girls' English Club

Date: 03 28 1951
Description: Three members of the Girls' English Club of West High School examine clothing donated to the annual clothing drive. From left are Nancy Fay, Pam Patterson...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: The Cambridge High School marching band goes down North Pinckney Street during the Scrap Metal Parade around the Capitol Square. Shown in the background ar...
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Badger Spelling Bee Winner

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Bobby Dommershausen, entrant in the 1952 Soap Box Derby, is pictured with members of the Sertoma club which sponsored him. Sertoma members shown left to ri...
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Driver Education Dual Control Car

Date: 07 02 1953
Description: Seated in a dual control car used for driver education classes are, from left: Milt Diehl, instructor, and East High students, Bruce Schmidt and John Fillh...
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Dane County Junior Fair — Style Review

Date: 07 25 1953
Description: Marcia Webber, blue ribbon winner in preliminary judging at the Senior Style Review of the Dane County Junior Fair.
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West High School Clothing Drive

Date: 12 11 1953
Description: Members of the committee for the West High School clothing drive for needy children pose with bags of the clothing they collected. Principal Ralph Christof...
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Y-Teen Dance Committee

Date: 04 14 1954
Description: Group portrait of the committee responsible for planning a Y-Teen dance, part of a World's Fair staged by the Y-Teens of Madison. From left are: Virginia D...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Larry Jacobson, the 1953 Madison Soap Box Derby champion, sitting in the Chevrolet Corvette which will carry him at the head of the 1954 parade. He is wear...
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Loft Halloween Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Joyce Nelson gets her hand stamped by Kristine Kaltbrunner at the Loft Halloween party. Admission cost one quarter and Dan Garson's orchestra performed for...
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Loft Halloween Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Kent Kildow and Larry Brown are shown adding an extra loop of paper ribbon to the spooky figure on the band stand. Other paper decorations include skeleton...
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The Village Green

Date: 10 09 1956
Description: View into a German wooden shoe-making shop in The Village Green, a Wisconsin Historical Society exhibit. Shown in the shop are Marcia Harrington and Koroth...
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Planning High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 04 1957
Description: Madison high school girls serve as official hostesses at the parties planned by youth groups for teenagers attending the annual State High School Basketbal...

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