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| Date: | 03 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Part of a crowd of interested citizens are shown in attendance at a Madison city council meeting to listen to arguments on off-street parking. |
| Date: | 03 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Five men from the Madison Brass Works Bowling Team pose for a group portrait. They are, from left to right, Earl Zanoya, Billy Dye, Steve Caravella, Harry ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Frank "Chief" Trostle, who bowled a Madison record 727 series at the Arcade Recreation alleys. He was a service station operator on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Youth Theater board of governors are shown holding a sign advertising their summer program. Pictured left to right are Charlene Scha... |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Three men standing at the microphone during a WIBA Radio broadcast from the Madison Home Show. |
| Date: | 11 14 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of Western Electric workers picket the Wisconsin Telephone Exchange at 122 West Main Street off the Capitol Square in Madison. The Park Hotel sign ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Jim Bidgood, Lester Levine, and Charle Schaefer act in the play "Illusions," one of three one-act plays presented by the Madison Youth Summer Theater which... |
| Date: | 11 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Dick Brilliott, left, and John Hudson, co-chairmen of the Madison Youth Clothes-for-Korea drive, eye the piles of clothing lining the halls of the Madison ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Avenue entrance to the Kennedy Manor apartments. |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Ten Madison school children, all fourth through sixth graders, sit with librarian Mrs. E.J. Levenick in the Madison Free Library children's reading room. T... |
| Date: | 05 29 1950 |
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| Description: | 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori... |
| Date: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail... |
| 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 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Retiring president of the Madison Community Chest, E.L. Wingert of 117 North Prospect Avenue (left), congratulates his successor, Francis Bowman, Jr. of Ro... |
| Date: | 02 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Seven boys in the percussion section of the Madison parochial schools band practice on drums and cymbals at Edgewood High School. |
| Date: | 03 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 29 Madison General Hospital student nurses who completed their pre-clinical training. Taken following a ceremony in which each student re... |
| Date: | 04 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Barbara North of 1003 Jenifer Street, the spelling champion of the Madison Lutheran School, sits at a desk while reading a newspaper. A dictionary lies ope... |
| Date: | 04 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Paul W. Gauger, speech instructor at Wisconsin High School, who is to be the master pronouncer at the spelling championship for the 21 Madison schools. |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Glenn "Pat" Holmes (left) and Frank Blau, directors of the Madison summer playground program, are shown checking equipment out to the 30 playgrounds which ... |
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