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| Date: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Some of the crowd watching the 1954 Madison soap box derby, including the Wilbert Rung family of Madison. |
| Date: | 08 11 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of supporters of the recently incorporated Madison Art Foundation. Philip Falk (left), superintendent of Madison schools, shows a piece of artwork... |
| Date: | 11 01 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison West High School player Don Quam (81) crowns the homecoming queen, Joan Herreid, at the Madison West High School versus Madison East football game.... |
| Date: | 10 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Pledges of the Delta Gamma sorority gather around the piano as Harriet Kirchhoff sits on the piano bench to play. From the left are: Joan Sexton, Madison; ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lillian Niebuhr, left, president of the Madison Woman's Bowling Association, and Frank Gottsacker, right, president of the Madison Bowling Asso... |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Jessie DeWoody, president of the Madison Garden Club, and her son Ralph working on a flower arrangement for the Madison Rose Society exhibit. |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Evelyn Gotzion of 3222 James Street in Madison, Labor Day Queen, shows her ring to Orla Coleman, president of the Madison Federation of Labor. The rin... |
| Date: | 09 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Emma Winkelmann, widow of Madison zoo director Fred Winkelmann, in her Madison home prior to her move to Chicago. |
| Date: | 09 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Students attending the Wisconsin Lutheran Student Foundation Open House. Left to right: Chuck Stumpf, Madison; Nancy Schroeder, Middleton; Darlene Peterson... |
| Date: | 02 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison Advertising Club are shown. They are (L-R) Robert Loomer, WKOW-TV; Martin Wolman, business manager of Madison Newspapers Inc.; ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visits with, left to right: Theresa Lohbauer, Madison; Martha Austin, St. Louis; and Edith Brandt (?), Madison at the regional... |
| Date: | 04 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii. |
| Date: | 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of sixty one Madison General Hospital student nurses who have received their nursing caps in a capping ceremony. |
| Date: | 09 13 1954 |
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| Description: | New Madison residents Dorothy and Donovan Palmquist moved to Madison after Reverend Mr. Palmquist became the new pastor of Central Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 02 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Visiting at the state meeting of the United Commercial Travelers insurance company are, left to right: George Frost, Madison; Velma Foust, Madison; John Sc... |
| Date: | 12 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Acting Madison mayor George Elder introducing five Russian welfare officials to Madison. The Russians are, left to right, front row: Vasilya Sadykova, Dmit... |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of Phi Beta Speech Sorority rehearse a play reading they will be putting on for patients in Madison hospitals. Left to right: Jean Day, Madison; Ev... |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Three members of Beautiful Madison, Inc. give a letter to Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated at desk) requesting a city ordinance against littering in Madison st... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Vivian Soule (center), of Rt. 3 in Madison, was chosen as Wisconsin's most outstanding restaurant hostess at an open house held by the Madison Association.... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Luella Mortenson, women's director for bot... |
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