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| Date: | 09 06 1950 |
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| Description: | A highway speed limit sign on Olin Avenue in Madison displays the urban speed limit of 25 miles per hour prior to leaving the Madison city limits. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Side view of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The first wing, which was built onto the old building. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a plaque on a rock near the curb close to the entrance to the tower. |
| Date: | 01 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Karen Nelson, age 7, gliding on one skate. She is a member of the Madison Skating Club's Junior Club. |
| 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: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter Heermann, conductor of the Madison Civic Symphony and Civic Chorus, poses with a baton in his hand. |
| 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: | 04 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Karl A. Eisole, Jr., national advertising manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc, wearing a bowtie. |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited through the Madison Youth Council helped plant trees and shrubs on the Vilas Park island. |
| Date: | 10 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly (left) explains how Madison police fight crimes to visiting internationally-famous Belgian criminal investigator Flour... |
| 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: | 10 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Shown is Madison East's second touchdown in its victory over Madison West in a Big-Eight and intra-city football game. Shown is Ronnie Schara (#40) scoring... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Although probably a posed shot, Madison photographer John Newhouse has nevertheless managed to capture much of the annoyance associated with receiving a ti... |
| Date: | 01 10 1950 |
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| Description: | J. L. Griffith of 5208 Interlake Drive, Secretary and Treasurer of the Madison Outboard Club, and Roger Terry, president, plan for the upcoming racing seas... |
| Date: | 02 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Five boys practice playing trombones in the Madison parochial schools band at Edgewood High School. |
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