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Campus Map

Date: 1959
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Numbers in circles identify buildings across campus with the building index. Black arrows point out important infor...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Association Scholarships

Date: 06 18 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Jane Stark and Mrs. Margaret Stehr, officers of the Madison Alumnar Panhellenic Association, are shown with three 1959 high school graduates that...
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Madison Apartment Fire

Date: 02 19 1959
Description: Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street.
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Formation of the Madison Junior Achievement Corporation

Date: 03 12 1959
Description: Two incorporators of the Madison Junior Achievement Corporation sign the papers that will put teen-age boys and girls into their own profit-making business...
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Madison Central Football Leaders

Date: 12 02 1959
Description: Madison Central football coach Harold (Gus) Pollock with two of his players at the annual Bank of Madison banquet. At left is Dick Putnam, an all-city end....
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Madison Boys Baseball Champion Team

Date: 07 31 1959
Description: Group portrait of the H & I Variety Junior baseball team, champions of the Madison Boys Baseball program.
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Pavement Potholes

Date: 02 24 1959
Description: View of a car driving over a pothole in a Madison street pavement.
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Madison Young Adult Club Party

Date: 03 04 1959
Description: The 13th anniversary of the Madison Young Adult Club is celebrated at a party at the Madison Community Center, 16 E. Doty Street. Shown admiring a fancy ca...
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Madison Downtown Rotary Club Scholarshop Awards

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Walter Renk (right), president of the Madison Downtown Rotary Club presents scholarship awards to five Madison high school seniors. Left to right are: Lee ...
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Madison Central High School Football Team

Date: 09 1959
Description: Portrait of Mike London, #74 on the Madison Central High School football team. One of 39 images of individual members of the Madison Central High School fo...
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Madison East High School Football Team

Date: 09 1959
Description: Portrait of Larry Biddick, #72 on the Madison East High School team. One of 38 images of individual members of the Madison East High School football team a...
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Madison Lions Club Constitution Day Dinner

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Rep. Robert Kastenmeier, right, was the main speaker at the Madison Lions Club Constitution Day Dinner. Left to right are: Alton Haessler, Madison assistan...
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Madison Chamber of Commerce Aids Junior Achievement

Date: 09 29 1959
Description: The Madison Chamber of Commerce presents a check for $50 to the Madison Junior Achievement to aid the work done by the program. Shown (L-R) are: John R. Be...
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Madison Advertising Essay Contest

Date: 04 09 1959
Description: Portrait of the four judges and event chairman for the annual essay contest for the Madison high schools, sponsored by the Madison Advertising Club. The es...
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Half Century Club of U.W. Madison

Date: 06 05 1959
Description: Portrait of Arthur Holmes, of La Crosse, of the class of 1909, UW Madison and former University of Wisconsin regent.
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Testimonial Dinner Honoring Dr. Lester McGary

Date: 10 27 1959
Description: During his years at Madison General Hospital, Dr. McGary trained several hundred laboratory technicians in the first such school established in Madison. Pi...
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Madison Junior Achievement Officers

Date: 11 13 1959
Description: Group portrait of seventeen officers of newly established teenaged business firms of the Madison Junior Achievement program. Under the program, the teenage...
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Madison Stamp Club Exhibit

Date: 03 05 1959
Description: Members of the Madison Stamp Club shown examining a stamp. (Ned Lawrence on left, Fred Huebner on right). Displays of stamps on the wall behind them are pa...
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Madison Young Adult Club Party

Date: 03 04 1959
Description: The 13th anniversary of the Madison Young Adult Club is celebrated at the Madison Community Center. Special guests at the celebration included past council...
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Madison League of Women Voters Dinner

Date: 10 08 1959
Description: The honored guest and speaker at a Madison League of Women Voters dinner is Mrs. John G. Lee, of Farmington, Connecticut, who was the national president fr...

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