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Youth Journal Column

Date: 03 20 1947
Description: Pictured are Roy Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (seated), and Louise Marston, society editor of the paper (standing at left), discuss...
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International Harvester Exhibits at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 08 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Kankakee High School band that is playing in the background as a crowd gathers around International Harvester exhibits at the...
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Youth Radio Workshop

Date: 02 07 1948
Description: Betty Booth, associate editor of Seventeen magazine, being interviewed by Madison high school students on the Madison Youth Radio Workshop program b...
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Magda Herzberger Lecturing

Date: 11 06 1980
Description: Magda Herzberger gives a lecture on the Holocaust to a classroom of Monroe High School students.
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Badger Spelling Bee Champion with Family

Date: 05 03 1952
Description: Badger Spelling Champion Beth Knope with her family. Her parents Pearl S. and Sidney E. Knope, are shown seated on either side of Beth, while her 6-year-o...
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Blessings At Christmas

Date: 1972
Description: Photographic holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Three photographs show Mom, Dad and daughter. A bow and pine branches decorate the card. The te...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San...
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NOEL

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Description: Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over an image of three dimensional letters that read: "NOEL." The letters are slanting from u...
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My Heart is Shaking Only For You

Date: 1945
Description: Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t...
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West High School Girls' Club Christmas Activities

Date: 12 08 1954
Description: Four girls singing while looking down at their caroling books and holding candles and dressed for the outdoors. They are Diane Gensichen, Sally Tisdale, Su...
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Hazel Hargrove, freshman at Central High School, reads to her blind neighbor, Mrs. L.E. Grandison, as a Lenten expression of concern for others.
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School Administrator

Date: 1978
Description: "Village and town officials are present when school administrator, John Phillips (at the podium), addresses the crowd. Coach Rick Bloohm is left of the pod...
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Genevieve Milward

Date: 06 1921
Description: Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh...
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Swear In To Vote Day

Date: 01 15 1980
Description: "New Voters — It was "Swear In to Vote Day' at Pulaski High School. Students who have reached 18 were sworn in as voters during a ceremony at the school, a...
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Subscription Contest Winner

Date: 08 07 1958
Description: Original caption states: "Everyone benefits. Jans Jackson, Spring Green, champion subscription salesman, of the Wisconsin State Journal's carrier bo...
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Wisconsin State Journal Young Columbus Leaves for Hawaii

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: William Scobie, age 16 of Brodhead, holds a flight bag while embarking an airplane. Scobie won a trip to Hawaii for selling the most subscriptions to the <...
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Woman Distributing Leaflets

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Description: A Caucasian woman, identified as Barbara Deming, hands leaflets to an African American family on a front porch. The location is tentatively identified as G...
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Young Columbus Winner

Date: 03 26 1959
Description: Newspaper carrier Donald Fay, 15, of Edgerton is the winner of the Young Columbus trip to Italy sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal and its Sun...
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Monona Grove High School Senior Recognition Night

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Two award winners at the Monona Grove High School senior recognition program. At left is Whit Eades with his parents, Col. and Mrs. W.E. Eades. Whit was th...
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Madison Downtown Rotary Club Scholarshop Awards

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Walter Renk (right), president of the Madison Downtown Rotary Club presents scholarship awards to five Madison high school seniors. Left to right are: Lee ...

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