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| Date: | 11 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Evelyn Thomas and Pauline Wixson shown modeling ski fashions at the Madison YMCA Ski Club's meeting and fashion show. |
| Date: | 11 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Noni Foley and R.R. (Bud) Paunack model ski wear at the Madison YMCA Ski Club's fashion show. |
| 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 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: | 11 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Two participants in the vaudeville show at a meeting of the Woman's Club of Madison admire a poster for one of the acts. They are Marie Oakey and Grace Liv... |
| Date: | 04 27 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Civic Dance Guild are shown rehearsing "En Bateau" from Debussy's "Petite Suite", which is a part of the Young People's matinee conc... |
| Date: | 06 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce prompt their charcoal broiled chicken dinner held at the West Side Business Men's Club, Gilbert Road. Sho... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Organizers of the 1950 Madison Soap Box Derby gather around a table while examining papers. Pictured left to right, front row, are: Glenn "Pat" Holmes, Joh... |
| Date: | 08 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Three Madison high school youths admire a poster describing the North-South All-Star high school football game to be held in Green Bay. From left to right:... |
| Date: | 01 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Lawrence E. Perry (left), and Robert Perry, both of Watertown, and Mark Widen, Madison, look at a poster about Printing Week during a dinner observing Inte... |
| Date: | 11 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Anne Collins packs a parka into the knapsack worn by her husband Edward Collins at a fashion show for the Madison YWCA Ski Club. Both are modeling ski appa... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Christine and Bill Schuldt admiring posters and relics of circuses founded in Wisconsin at an exhibit in the State Historical Society Museum. The photograp... |
| Date: | 05 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Five youth from the East Side Youth Activities Center make posters for the contest being held in connection with Madison Camp Week. The girls in the pictur... |
| Date: | 04 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen Lathers, Judy Angevine, Alnora M. Lathers, and Jessie C. De Woody apply circus posters to the interior walls of the East Side Business men's clu... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Ice Chippers, members of a winter ice fishing group based in Madison. They are posing indoors, and Sid Boyum is sitting on the floor ... |
| Date: | 12 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Drama Institute in Madison drew hundreds of high school thespians from all over the state. Members of the South Milwaukee High School Drama Club. Left to R... |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Two men standing by examples of ads, including ones for Ray-o-Vac batteries and Strauss Printing, at an Advertising Club meeting/conference. |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Beverly Hill, left, and Carol Sterling make posters for the Y-Teen open house and style show at the YWCA. Mary Ellen Kruger, standing, the Y-Teen adviser, ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving cut-out poster created by Randall Elementary School student Michael Bollig, age 8. |
| Date: | 02 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Three men hold booklets and a poster featuring "Peas and Chicken Fiesta" recipes, promoting the use of canned peas. |
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