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Joseph R. Valentine

Date: 10 04 1948
Description: Portrait of Joseph R. Valentine, operator of Club Chanticleer in Middleton that was robbed.
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Middle High School Football Team

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Middleton High School football team and coach, sitting on bleachers. The team is wearing helmets.
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Gerald E. Annin, a range officer, checks the target of Barbara Anderson at a meeting of the Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club.
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Middle High School Football Team

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Middleton High School football team and coach, sitting on bleachers. Football helmets are in a pile in front of the group.
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Chanticleer Orchestra

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Chanticleer "Lanky Neal" Orchestra.
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Middleton Piggly Wiggly Store

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Two men are posing in front of a new Piggly Wiggly grocery store. The new store was located in Middleton at the intersection of Gateway Street and Universi...
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Chanticleer Orchestra

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Group portrait of the men in the Chanticleer "Lanky Neal" Orchestra.
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The Hagins and The Middletons

Date: 05 18 1921
Description: Two well-dressed couples, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Hagin, left, and Mr. and Mrs. Forest Middleton, reclining on a lawn with shrubbery behind them.
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Solomon Freeman

Date: 1885
Description: Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to...
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Forest in Yokohama

Date: 1922
Description: Forest Middleton standing beside a bookcase holding a pipe. He is wearing a suit and tie. There are Japanese figurines on the top of the bookcase and a Jap...
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Ground Breaking for the Middleton Medical Library

Date: 05 20 1965
Description: Dr. William S. Middleton, emeritus dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, turns the first shovelful at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Mi...
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Chanticleer Orchestra

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Group portrait of Chanticleer "Lanky Neal" Orchestra dressed in identical suits and two-tone shoes.
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Coughlin Birthday Party

Date: 1951
Description: Luncheon or dinner group at the Top Hat restaurant celebrating a birthday party for Joseph L. (“Roundy”) Coughlin, a local newspaper columnist.
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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A Friendly Game

Date: 09 1921
Description: Leonore and Forest Middleton, on the far left, playing cards with two other women and a man while sitting at a small table. The man on the far right has th...
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Boating

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified young man, smiling broadly, is driving a painted wooden boat with inboard motor. There are nine women passengers. The women are wearing bat...
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West Side Optimist Club Meeting

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: West Madison-Middleton Optimist Club members (left to right) W.C. Matthews, Keith McKenzie, Less Fleury and Dr. H.G. Meidell.
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Christmas Dinner

Date: 1922
Description: Four women and two men are sitting at a dining table. Forest Middleton, on the far left, is wearing a Japanese-style jacket. His wife, Leonore, is second f...
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West Side Optimist Club Meeting

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Gordon Logan, West Madison-Middleton Optimist Club president (right) confers with luncheon speaker Sanger B. Powers, superintendent of the state reformator...
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Bradford W. Gillett

Date: 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active...

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