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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: Many teenage drivers learn to drive in the summer driving education courses. Sue Hubbard, a student of the course, is shown explaining the parts of an engi...
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Youth on View - Teenage Drivers

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: To emphasize the usefulness of teenage driving clubs, Tom Cox, a member of the Cambusters Auto Club, is shown assisting a visitor from Elkhorn.
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Dream House Built from Plans in Newspaper

Date: 11 29 1960
Description: The four-level home built from plans in the Wisconsin State Journal by Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. (Schim) Elliott as their "dream home" at 526 Edward st...
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Wedding "Get-Away" Car

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: View towards a man and two boys decorating the "get-away" car for the wedding of Dave Wilson and Jean Goodell. The sign sprayed on the side of the car read...
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K & O Transfer Truck

Date: 12 16 1954
Description: Four men standing in front of a K & O Transfer truck pulling a long flatbed at an unknown location. They are right behind a building and down a back alley ...
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Hilldale Shopping Center Construction

Date: 04 03 1962
Description: View looking south from the Shorewood bluff of the Hilldale Shopping Center under construction. Apartments and houses in the Hill Farms neighborhood are in...
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Carson Gulley at His New Restaurant

Date: 09 12 1962
Description: Local celebrity chef, Carson Gulley, posing with the sign for his new restaurant and catering firm at 5522 University Avenue.
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New Dane County Parking Ramp

Date: 05 22 1958
Description: Interior view of the new Dane county parking ramp on the site of the old county courthouse at Main and Henry streets. The five-level, 700-car facility will...
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Women Hugging Two Children on Capitol Square

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: An unidentified woman hugging two children while standing on the Capitol Square across the street from the Park Hotel. At the corner of the Park Hotel on t...
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Officers of Hult's Capital Garage

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: Officers of Hult's Capital Garage, with a combined ninety years of service with the organization. Left to right are: George E. Lambrecht, secretary; Ralph ...
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University Campus Shoreline Vista

Date: 07 11 1958
Description: A view of Lake Mendota from the end of Park street. F.O. Leiser, general chairman of the class of 1902 has raised the issue of maintaining the lakeshore be...
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Winter Snowstorm in Madison

Date: 01 22 1959
Description: A group of riders are standing on the sidewalk waiting for a bus on Madison's Capitol square during a winter storm that brought a 5-inch snowfall and high ...
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mailing letters into a roadside mailbox from a car at the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camer...
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Storm Puts City on Emergency Footing

Date: 03 07 1959
Description: Snow covered steps of the capitol building, as well as two cars covered with snow. Sign between the cars reads: "Use Ground Floor". The caption adds: "Well...
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Spring Flowers

Date: 03 26 1959
Description: View from inside looking through show window towards two young girls holding umbrellas who are standing outdoors on the sidewalk on the Capitol Square. The...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Mr. & Mrs. (Alice) Richard Welch, 4410 Boulder Terrace, leave St. Mary's Hospital with their new baby girl, Andrea, escorted by student nurse Miss Nancy Mc...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Alice and Richard Welch, 4410 Bouldeer Terrace, are welcomed home with their new baby girl, Andrea, by their three sons, Jon (7), Daniel (5) and Stephen (3...
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Vitense Golfland

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: Golfers playing the miniature golf course at George Vitense's Golfland; a combination of a miniature course, a par-three 18-hole layout, a driving range an...
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Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: Three shoppers and two youngsters showing how you lean "left to buck the wind" when you cross Monona Avenue at the Capitol Square.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: The Madison Free Library bookmobile is pulling up in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus....

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