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State High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 16 1957
Description: State High School Basketball Tournament game between Madison West and Shawano. Shawano won the state tournament, beating Madison West 66-61.
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Madison West High School Sophomore Basketball Team

Date: 03 01 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Madison West High School sophomore basketball team.
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Madison Public Library Bookmobile

Date: 07 11 1957
Description: Interior of Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Librarian Doris Cruger is sitting at the desk inside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Standing...
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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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Madison Optimists Installation of Officers

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Four men attend the installation of Madison Optimists officers. They are, from left to right, Wesley West, lieutenant governor of the Madison area; Melvin ...
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Cath Morgan working on a crayon and watercolor portrait during a Madison Art Guild painting session.
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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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Edgewood High School 10th Reunion

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Mr. & Mrs. Wilham Wiedholz (Maurine Durkin), Madison; Mrs. Cornelius Collins (Carol Fitzgibbon), Madison; and Philip Schwarz, Appleton, chatTING together a...
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Madison General Hospital Student Nurses

Date: 04 05 1957
Description: Group portrait of sixty four Madison General Hospital student nurses after their capping ceremony at the First Congregational Church.
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Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program

Date: 05 13 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital Junior Aide volunteer Betsy Dye delivers a plant to Mrs. M.C. Palmer at her bedside.
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Summer Visitors to Madison

Date: 07 16 1957
Description: Portrait of Thomas and Janice Hughes, in Madison visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Hughes, and Mrs. Margaret Gundlach.
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Roundy's Birthday Party

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: Ray Sennett (left), Madison; Olaf Severson, McFarland; Dr. B.I. Pippin, Richland Center; Roundy; and Al Thelen, Madison, attend a birthday party for Joseph...
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Madison City Clerk Celebrates 24 Years

Date: 05 06 1957
Description: Alfred W. Bareis who is starting his 25th year as Madison city clerk. He had previously been a clothing salesman and was a popular singer.
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: A violinist's view of conductor Walter Heermann leading the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra during rehearsal at Scanlan Hall, which occurred Tuesday eveni...
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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Doris Ardelt and Joal Fenn order lunch at a downtown Madison cafeteria.
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Eldred Garter and Secretary

Date: 12 07 1957
Description: Eldred Garter, Madison Newspapers employee, showing a secretary how to type using a dictaphone.
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National Sales Executives of Madison Party

Date: 01 12 1957
Description: Shown chatting at the National Sales Executives of Madison party are: J.A. McIlnay, a member of the national board of directors; Virginia Manzer; Pearl McI...
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Madison Art Guild oil painters participate in a workshop at Doris Brobst's home at 211 Lathrop Street. Sitting: Virginia Oosterhous. Standing: Kathleen Cla...
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Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program

Date: 05 13 1957
Description: Junior Aide volunteer Kathleen Hensen reading a story to 4-year-old Jennifer Bahowick at her bedside in Madison General Hospital.
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Summer Visitors to Madison

Date: 07 16 1957
Description: Portrait of David and Marcia Blowney, taken in Madison while visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Kirch, on Hillington Green. His parents live in ...

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