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Roundy's Birthday Party

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: Joseph (Roundy) Couglin, a popular sports columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal, cutting a large decorated birthday cake at his birthday party.
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Lansing A. Wilcox 105th Birthday Party

Date: 1951
Description: Group portrait of Lansing A. Wilcox — last Civil War veteran in Wisconsin — with a group of men at his 105th birthday. The birthday party was held at the G...
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Cranberry Queen

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm is shown as he accepted a freshly baked cranberry pie from Joanne Fiedler, Tomah's cranberry queen. Queen Joanne, members of her court, ...
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Wiley with Cake

Date: 1948
Description: Congressman Alexander Wiley, at left, and another man on the right, holding a cake decorated with the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin.
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Cake from Homecoming Committee

Date: 11 05 1949
Description: After a 14-6 Badger football victory over Northwestern, a crowd of 3,000 fans jammed the North Western Rail Road Station to welcome the team and present th...
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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Winkie, Vilas Zoo Elephant

Date: 06 30 1951
Description: Two men and Vilas Zoo Director Harold Hayes standing with group of children during the celebration of the first anniversary of Winkie the elephant's arriva...
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W. Jerome & Dora Higgins

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: W. Jerome & Dora Higgins celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cake in their home at 316 Grand Avenue. Jerry Higgins is blind and runs the newsst...
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St. Stephen's Church in Monona is Consecrated

Date: 05 01 1960
Description: Two pastors and two laymen cutting a cake, probably at the consecration services at the new St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 5700 Pheasant Hill R...
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Boy Scouts 42nd Anniversary

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: Five Sea Scouts surprise former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry with a birthday cake on his eighty-fourth birthday. He has been pres...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Walter and Marion Krause sample doughnuts at a meeting held for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents at Gardener's Baking Company. The men have cared...
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Camels' Day at Vilas Zoo

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: Zor Shrine Potentate Laurien J. Caldwell of Janesville christens a new camel named Najme during the annual Camels' Day at Henry Vilas Zoo. A four-foot tall...
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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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Sigma Alpha Iota Anniversary Banquet

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: Admiring a four-tiered anniversary cake at a banquet celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority are, left to right, Helen Pete...
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Anniversary Portrait

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly couple for their 50th anniversary. The woman is sitting, and the man is standing. ...
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Couple Cutting Wedding Cake

Date: 04 15 1945
Description: Dr. Forde A. McIver and Ruth Raymond Huegel McIver are cutting their wedding cake. He is the son of E. Roderick McIver, Darlington, S.C., and she is the da...
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East Side Business Men's Association

Date: 01 20 1947
Description: Officers of the East Side Business Men's Association posing with the tier cake made for the Association's Silver Jubilee banquet at the Hotel Loraine. Pict...
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Walgreen Employee Honored

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Robert A. Knoll (left) receives a gold watch in honor of his 25 years of service with Walgreen Drug Stores. It is being presented by E.A. Rintelmann. Mr. K...
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Cutting the Cake

Date: 09 1952
Description: Ralph Widmer and Helen Bodden cut their wedding cake.
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Children of the American Revolution

Date: 03 13 1951
Description: Members of the Timothy Hatch Society of the Children of the American Revolution take part in the commemoration ceremony in recognition of the founding of M...

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