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| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country. |
| Date: | 06 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Twenty-year-old actress from Chicago, Dianne Hatch, stopped in Madison on a tour to promote the movie "Macabre" which will soon appear in local theaters. |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman is shown speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. He was in Madison to be present at the laying of the corner... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, being crowned "Madison's Miss 1957 United Givers' Fund Queen" at the charity's banquet during the Madison stop on ... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Young Madison girls requesting autographs of Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, during a fashion show at the Casey and O'Brien, Inc. store on Atwood ... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, pinning charity information to a board at the United Givers' Fund at the banquet during the Madison stop on her to... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman visited Madison to be present at the laying of the cornerstone for the CUNA's Filene House, 1617 Sherman Avenue. He is pictured ... |
| Date: | 01 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade... |
| Date: | 08 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Sam Liberace and his wife, Zona, with their French horn and cello in their home at 2638 East Dayton Street. Sam and his former wife, Frances, are the paren... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea... |
| Date: | 11 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Ribbon-cutting ceremony at Madison's newest and largest Kroger supermarket at 525 South Midvale Boulevard. Mayor Ivan Nestigen, center, cuts the ribbon. On... |
| Date: | 03 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Duke Ellington at the keyboard at a jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. |
| Date: | 03 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Ray Nance singing into a microphone at the Duke Ellington jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | The members of the U.W. football coaching staff are shown meeting with Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing champion during a dinner at the Park... |
| Date: | 07 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Mildred Rand is crowned "East Side Merchandise Queen" by City Councilman Herbert C. Schenk at the annual festival of the East Side Business Men's Associati... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | At left is Pauline Frederick, NBC commentator, speaker for the Matrix banquet. She is shown with Elizabeth Risser and Katherine Maurer. |
| Date: | 03 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Duke Ellington jazz big band performing at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. Pictured are clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and bassist Wendell Marshall... |
| Date: | 12 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Four of the 142 who attended the annual Rounder's Club Christmas party are, left to right: Sam Olson, Ed Stoeber, Frank Torre, and Art McCance. Torre, the ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Three Bickel brothers are shown with classmate Norman Bassett at an Alpha Delta Phi fraternity reunion. Left to right are: John Bickel, Norman Bassett, Fre... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin sports alumni and professional baseball players "Red" Wilson and Harvey Kuenn take a tour through the Veterans Hospital, talking an... |
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