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Speed Skater Posing with Trophy

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Description: Juvenile girls speed skater, Louise Jerome from Superior, Wisconsin, posing with a trophy.
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Robert Burkhalter and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H...
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Order of DeMolay Holiday Ball

Date: 12 26 1947
Description: Rose Marie Licht and Jack Olds posing on a couch at the Masonic Temple. They are attending the annual Order of DeMolay holiday ball.
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La Verne Haak, Chairman of Madison Youth Council Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: La Verne Haak, chairman of the Madison Youth Council's second annual spring clean-up campaign, is shown with equipment to be used for the project. His tool...
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WIAA State Prep Track Meet

Date: 05 27 1950
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jerry Witt of Marshfield, who won both the Class A 100 and 200 yard dash at the WIAA prep track meet held at Camp Randall on the Univer...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: City champion Roddy Botts posing in his winning soap box derby car, Aeolus, named for the Greek god of the winds.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 07 1950
Description: Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby.
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Rainbow Girls' Variety Show

Date: 10 22 1953
Description: Connie Platz (left) and Betsy Graham practice their dancing act for the variety show sponsored by the Order of Rainbow for Girls to be held at the Masonic ...
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Loft Christmas Party

Date: 12 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Larry Brown, West High School student, and Donna Tupper, East High School, seated by Christmas wall decorations at the Loft, a Madison teen org...
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Rai-Molay Christmas Dance

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Stephen Weiss and Susan Deanovich are shown at the "Snow Flake Whirl," a dance sponsored by the Order of Rainbow for Girls and the Order of De Molay at the...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Two campers at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA camp on the shore of Lake Mendota near Fox Bluff, sit on a log while making sketches. The girls are Susan Meyer (...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
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Girl Scouts Off to Round-Up in Colorado

Date: 06 21 1959
Description: Nancy Muckenhirn is shown with Devil's Lake rocks that the Black Hawk Council of Girl Scouts will be taking to Colorado Springs for the Senior Girl Scout R...
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Roundy's Fun Fund Thanks Girl for Help

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Roundy Coughlin and the Roundy's Fun Fund committee thanks Suzy Peterson, past president of the ninth grade "Y" Teen Club at West High School. The group of...
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Miss Popularity

Date: 1957
Description: Louise Carter of Milwaukee, 17-years-old, the winner of a popularity contest at a dance held by the Katty Club (Knowledge and Truth Through Youth) at the M...
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Maple Bluff Social Event for Teens

Date: 06 26 1953
Description: Teenagers Tom Stephan and Jean McFarlane, seated, shown chatting at the Maple Bluff Country Club party.
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Maple Bluff Social Event for Teens

Date: 06 26 1953
Description: David Vilas is shown pinning a carnation corsage on his date, Beth Herman, at the Maple Bluff social party for teens.
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Eagle Scout Donald Selje

Date: 12 08 1964
Description: Waist-up portrait of Donald Selje, 15, who received his Eagle Scout award at a Troop 27 court of honor at Lakeview American Lutheran Church.
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Michael Fullwood Wins Madison Jaycees Junior Citizenship Award

Date: 05 04 1965
Description: Michael Fullwood (left), 3306 Blackhawk Drive, senior at Central-University High School, wins the Madison Jaycees Junior Citizenship award at a ceremony at...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: One of the younger attendees at the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church was Jane Rudolph who is an English...

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