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| Date: | 09 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Sets of buttons in display boxes are arranged in the Madison Button Club store window display. |
| 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: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Artist Francis Chapin is shown standing beside his oil painting "House of Dogs, Mexico" which the Madison Art Association displayed at the Madison Free Lib... |
| Date: | 02 13 1950 |
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| Description: | The Madison Optimists presented a check for $100 to the Madison Heart Committee for American Heart Week in commemoration of Optimist members who have died ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Art Association and U.W. Memorial Union Gallery Committee prepare for the Spring Art Show. Left to right: Charles Haycock of Sussex,... |
| Date: | 01 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison Skating Club's Junior Club members Venita Plazewski and Barbara Rieman skating on one leg while holding hands. |
| Date: | 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby. |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowd of over 500 persons attending the public hearing of the Madison Housing Authority (MHA), a committee of the Madison Common (City... |
| Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Three Madison citizens involved in directing the United Givers' Fund drive of 1950, the first Madison United Givers' Fund campaign, gather at a desk. Shown... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Thirteen year-old Philip Lenhart of Madison, Wisconsin, sitting in his new and improved soap box derby car. In the 1950 Madison race held on July 23, 1950,... |
| Date: | 03 31 1950 |
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| Description: | Amerian Legion 40 et 8 presents checks to three Madison welfare groups; Rev. J. Van Handel of the Madison Catholic diocese welfare bureau, Rabbi Manfred Sw... |
| Date: | 11 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Dick Brilliott, left, and John Hudson, co-chairmen of the Madison Youth Clothes-for-Korea drive, eye the piles of clothing lining the halls of the Madison ... |
| Date: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James B. (Anya) Castle, chair of the women's division of the Madison Heart Fund Drive, displays a fundraising poster. |
| Date: | 01 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Retiring president of the Madison Community Chest, E.L. Wingert of 117 North Prospect Avenue (left), congratulates his successor, Francis Bowman, Jr. of Ro... |
| Date: | 01 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Skating Club's Junior Club are shown on the ice. They are, from left to right, Ray White, Jeff Blume, Sally Williamson, and Jea... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John J. (Audrey) Walsh and Mrs. Gottfired (Ruth) Mayer attach plastic heart coin containers to posters for the Madison Heart Fund Drive. |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea... |
| Date: | 04 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Civic Music Association board standing near a building entrance. They are: Helen Marting Supernaw, Mrs. Donald W. (Florence) A... |
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