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Madison Police Chief

Date: 11 29 1958
Description: Portrait of Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly.
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Gas Main Explosions Killed a Madison Couple

Date: 01 05 1958
Description: Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill...
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Madison Newspapers Meeting

Date: 08 06 1954
Description: Group portrait of eight men at a meeting of Madison Newspapers, Inc., the publisher of the Madison State Journal and Capitol Times.
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Man Playing Tennis in a Madison City Park

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: A man playing tennis in a Madison city park.
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Maurer studying paintings at Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational school.
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Madison Art Association Exhibition

Date: 10 15 1953
Description: Dr. Paul and Alice Clark amidst paintings at the preview of the Madison Art Association art exhibit in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Business Promotion Group Support

Date: 07 11 1958
Description: The National Sales Executive club of Madison purchased stock in the Madison Improvement Corporation. Pictured are, left to right: John G. Schutz, president...
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Madison News Bureau Manager

Date: 09 30 1958
Description: Portrait of John W. "Wally" Wyngaard, manager of the Wisconsin State Journal's Madison News Bureau.
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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii.
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Madison Apartment Fire

Date: 02 19 1959
Description: Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street.
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: A.T. Flint taking a close look at one of the paintings at the Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational school.
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: Elizabeth Harris chatting with Dr. Horace K. and Lucia Tenney at the Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madison Vocational Sch...
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Madison Playwright, Mary-Kate Lorenz

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Portrait of Madison playwright Mary-Kate Lorenz. Her play, "Beauty and the Beast", will be performed by the Madison Theater Guild at the Central High Schoo...
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Beautiful Madison Week Proclamation

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen signing a proclamation designating April 26 through May 4 as Beautiful Madison Week, when residents are urged to spruce up the...
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Visiting Russian Social Welfare Workers

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Acting Madison mayor George Elder introducing five Russian welfare officials to Madison. The Russians are, left to right, front row: Vasilya Sadykova, Dmit...
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Madison Art Association Exhibit

Date: 10 15 1953
Description: University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod (right) chats with Madison architect William Kaeser (left) at the preview for the Madison Art Ass...
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City of Madison & U.W. Police Graduates

Date: 08 1955
Description: Sixteen new Madison policemen and three U.W. officers receiving their diplomas at a graduation ceremony held at the City of Madison Police Academy School. ...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Miss America Visits Madison

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country.
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Wisconsin Lutheran Student Foundation Open House

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Pictured left to right: Rolf Giere, Galesville; the Rev. Carl A. Becker, Madison, pastoral adviser for the foundation; Evelyn Christenson, Madison, student...

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