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Harvey's Union Corners Service Station

Date: 04 08 1954
Description: Service call by Harvey's Standard Service Station to a woman with a flat tire, stranded in a neighborhood. Harvey's service truck has pulled up alongside t...
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Ed & Donna Stein

Date: 02 19 1954
Description: Photographer Ed Stein and his wife, Donna, in formal dress before attending the University of Wisconsin prom at the Memorial Union. He is in a tuxedo and s...
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University of Wisconsin Fraternity Housemothers

Date: 01 19 1959
Description: Kappa Sigma fraternity housemother, Mrs. Donald Matheson, serving as hostess with some of "her boys" in a simulated rushing scene. Included in the picture...
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Dream House Built from Plans in Newspaper

Date: 11 29 1960
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. (Schim) Elliott look at the house plans in the Wisconsin State Journal for the house they built as their "Dream House."
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State Capitol Christmas Tree

Date: 12 20 1957
Description: A view from above of the tall decorated 34-foot balsam tree in the Capitol Building rotunda. The tree was grown in Marquette County and purchased from the ...
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Foster Mothers Tea

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Three women who attended the Foster Mothers of Dane County tea at the Wisconsin executives mansion. Pictured are Margaret Straub, head resident at Blessed ...
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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YWCA Summer Activities Directors

Date: 06 1955
Description: Two women posing on a dock on Lake Mendota. They are Ruth La Duke (left), acting director of the YWCA's health education department, and Ruth Edie, who was...
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Republican Picnic at Burrows Park

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: Some of the 200 attendees at the hot dog stand in Burrows park for the picnic sponsored by the Dane county Republican Women and the Young Republicans. From...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Agnes Moore, a psychiatric nurse-in-training, is shown at University Hospital studying the medical report of a patient.
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Rosemary Robertson; Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 05 1959
Description: Portrait of "Alice in Dairyland" winner of 1959-60, Rosemary Robertson, 20, of Menasha.
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon leaving his airplane with his wife on a campaign stop in Madison.
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We Saw You . . . at PEO Sisterhood Tea

Date: 06 15 1957
Description: Members of the PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood Reciprocity Board sponsor a tea in honor of First Lady Helen (Davis) Thomson, wife o...
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Square Dancing

Date: 09 19 1953
Description: Harold and Hazel Woods and John and Alberta Lythjohan are shown square dancing in the gymnasium at Frank Allis School.
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Madison Civic Symphony Rehearsal

Date: 10 25 1953
Description: Loraine Emordeno provides tympani beats during the rehearsal of the civic symphony in Scanlan Hall.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Mrs. Arthur Straight washing dishes in her rural home with pet hen "Minnie" on her shoulder.
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Arthur O. Schroeder Home on Token Creek

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Arthur O. Schroeder in the kitchen of their home on Token creek.
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Voters

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: Three voters and a young observer at the Third Ward polling place in the City-County Building.
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Voters

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: A crowd of Second Ward voters in Lapham School, 1045 E. Dayton Street.
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Second Place Winner of the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 09 01 1957
Description: Portrait of Henrietta Markham, who won second place for her recipe for apricot bisque in the Wisconsin State Journal cookbook contest.

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