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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Youth Display Sheep

Date: 08 1948
Description: Elevated view of a number of young boys, and one girl, each crouched next to a sheep, displaying it to the crowd gathered around a pen at the Wisconsin Cen...
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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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Lomira Basketball Game

Date: 03 05 1993
Description: "In sectional basketball at Beaver Dam, the Lomira Lions girls team defeated Markesan."
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Lomira Basketball Game

Date: 03 05 1993
Description: "It was an intense moment in the Lomira-Markesan game when the camera caught coaches Ric Bloohm, foreground, and Tim Wilke urging on their team. Becky Zahn...
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Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom

Date: 05 07 1957
Description: "Cinderella" is the theme of the Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom. Members of the poster and publicity committee: Kathy Connell, Darlene DeBower, R...
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Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom

Date: 05 06 1957
Description: Completing final details for the Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom are a group of committee chairmen: seated L to R: Mary Ellen McCreary, invitations...
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Madison Young Adult Club Party

Date: 03 04 1959
Description: The 13th anniversary of the Madison Young Adult Club is celebrated at the Madison Community Center. Special guests at the celebration included past council...

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