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| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in line with South Pinckney Street. Includes 1 West Wilson Street state office building, the Wisconsin St... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lecture hall/classroom setting with a podium and a chalkboard in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Laboratory building. |
| Date: | 05 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Two Lutheran pastors chat during the seminar on ministry and mental health at the University YMCA in Madison. The Madison pastors are Rev. William J. Rohlw... |
| Date: | 05 16 1955 |
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| Description: | The men who planned the three-meeting seminar on ministry and mental health gather at the University YMCA in Madison. At left is Walter W. Argow, Madison, ... |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Walter Heerman conducting the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at the opening concert of its 30th season. |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison shoreline taken from Lake Monona in line with Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). Includes Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 11 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Drum major, Stan Stitgen, in front of the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band at the Wisconsin - Illinois football game in Camp Randall Stadium. |
| Date: | 06 12 1955 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman water ski behind a power boat on a Lake Mendota with downtown Madison skyline in the background. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Grace Episcopal Church Rectory on West Washington Avenue, built in 1893 and razed in 1960. |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in a line with Monona Avenue. Includes State Office Building (2 wings only), 1 West Wilson Street, the Ma... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mary Kate Lorenz and Mrs. Arthur F. Carey reflected in a mirror, holding two season tickets for the Madison Theatre Guild. |
| Date: | 09 1955 |
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| Description: | Stanley Sadler (b.1905-d.1969) posing with a camera. Sadler is chief engineer at the WMTV station in Madison. |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in a line with South Carroll Street. Includes State Office Building (2 wings only), 1 West Wilson Street,... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Armory tower with crenels and narrow arched windows. The building is on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is also known as the Red Gym or Old ... |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Kroger Grocery Store in the Madison East Shopping Center, 2829 East Washington Avenue. Also shown is the Spic-Span Dry Cleaners and F.W. Woolworths. |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal clerks Stanley A. Kolenda, William G. Spencer, and Nathan C. Hillmer sorting mail at the Madison Post Office. |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert P. Garvey, a bus driver for the Madison Bus Company, seated behind the steering wheel. |
| Date: | 01 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Parnell Bach, West High School teacher and art instructor, helping Jon Buschke hang a painting for the Youthful Madison Artists' Exhibit at Grace Episcopal... |
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