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| Date: | 01 04 1955 |
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| Description: | Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center. |
| Date: | 01 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Muriel Chapman shows her hand-made pendant necklace to Winfried Guenther during the Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group idea exchange. |
| Date: | 05 16 1955 |
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| Description: | The men who planned the three-meeting seminar on ministry and mental health gather at the University YMCA in Madison. At left is Walter W. Argow, Madison, ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in a line with South Carroll Street. Includes State Office Building (2 wings only), 1 West Wilson Street,... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mary Royston and Patricia Mathison looking over responses from invitations to the tea for graduating high school seniors sponsored by the Madison Alumne Pa... |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps of Madison, Wisconsin, lined up on the steps at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 05 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Two Baraboo women comparing notes before the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention. At left is Agnes Gahagen, chairman of the council nomin... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Louise Watson and Joan Jennerjohn, members of the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council, showing sorority pins to be displayed at the tea for graduating seni... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting on a Victorian sofa is wearing a costume for the Madison Art Association Beaux Arts ball. |
| Date: | 04 17 1955 |
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| Description: | Three men at a table at a contest clinic for drum & bugle corps officials held at the Madison Community Center. |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | The line-up of racers await their turn to race in the Madison Soap Box Derby. The Derby was on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capi... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby champion, David Laverty of Mineral Point, posing with the plaque and his brother Larry who is a past champion. In the background is ... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Three graduating seniors model clothing especially suitable for college life at the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. The models ar... |
| Date: | 11 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Ida Kittleson, Mary McCormick, Katherine Maurer, and Janet Pasch around a table at a tea given for the Madison Tuberculosis Association volunteer workers. |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Officer Harold Kurth (right) presented an honorary membership in the Madison policeman's Protective Association to Ben Alexander (left) who plays Detective... |
| Date: | 05 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Shown at a registration table at the first annual convention of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women are, from left: Mrs. F.J. Sazma, Water Town;... |
| Date: | 05 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Three delegates from St. Stanislaus Church in Berlin, Wisconsin checking the convention program at the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. They are... |
| Date: | 05 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Four delegates from different areas of the diocese chatting during the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention. From left: Mrs. William Goke,... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Starr (center) will give a talk on "Are Sororities for You?" at the tea for graduating high school seniors sponsored by the Madison Alumnar Panhel... |
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