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Curling Match

Date: 1950
Description: Two women compete in a curling match. Several spectators are visible in the background.
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Woman Curling

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Description: A woman is leaning over the ice preparing to deliver the stone in a curling game. She is holding a broom in her left hand and the stone in her right.
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Woman Curler

Date: 01 24 1963
Description: Elderly woman taking a break from a curling. She is a member of the "curling Scots" who toured the United States in 1963.
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Bonspiel Banquet

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: Group portrait of the cast for a skit called "The Women," entertainment for the Badger Bonspiel banquet. The women include, left to right: Emily Ahearn, Do...
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Madison Curling Club Bonspiel

Date: 01 11 1964
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Kent Hill of Portage participate in the mixed bonspiel at the Madison Curling Club.
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Madison Toories Curling Auxilary

Date: 12 03 1951
Description: Marion Cottrell, left, and Mildred Solheim, right, holding brooms on the curling rink. The women are "skips" for opposing teams of the Madison Toories, a w...
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Madison Toories Curling Auxilary

Date: 12 03 1951
Description: Mrs. Stephen Resan of Route 1 (left) and Agnes Gurney "sweep a stone" on a curling rink. The women are members of the Madison Toories, a women's curling gr...
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Curling Bonspiel

Date: 12 28 1956
Description: Mae Sommers Rink of Portage at Bonspiel in Madison. Left to right: Mae Rogers, Jean Westcott, Mae Sommers, and Peggy Winkler, all of Portage.
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Madison Curling Club Mixed Bonspiel

Date: 01 13 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Bob Harmon rink, the first event champion in the Madison Curling club-sponsored mixed bonspiel. Left to right are Bob and Millie Harm...
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Bonspiel Banquet

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: Group portrait of curlers from Portage, one of 32 rinks participating in the Badger Bonspiel and banquet. Shown left to right: Mrs. Harold Russell, Mrs. Ha...
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Badger Bonspiel

Date: 02 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Myrtle Jamieson, general chairman of the fifth annual Badger Bonspiel which will take place at the Madison Curling Club.
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Bonspiel Banquet

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: Peg Caldwell (left), Minerva Stewart, Lorraine Traut and Eleanore Gessner enjoy baskets of popcorn before the Badger Bonspiel banquet.
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Curling Bonspiel

Date: 12 28 1956
Description: Agnes Gurney rink of Madison, at the Bonspiel. Madison members shown: Marge Meier, Dorothy Hogan, Agnes Gurney, and Florence Lunger.
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Curling Bonspiel

Date: 12 28 1956
Description: Kay Bogue rink of Portage, at the Madison bonspiel. Pictured are Kay Bogue, Helen Bennett, Joan Trickey, and Kathy Haas.
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Curling Bonspiel

Date: 12 28 1956
Description: Celia Stevenson rink of Poynette at the Madison bonspiel. Shown left to right: Celia Stevenson, Shirley Emerson, Kay Trenary, and Eileen Johnson.
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Madison Toories Curling Auxilary

Date: 12 03 1951
Description: Marion Leifer, a member of the Madison Toories — a women's curling group, is shown wearing a team Scotch hat decorated with pins displaying her curling exp...
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Madison Toories Curling Auxilary

Date: 12 03 1951
Description: Esther Onstad releases the "stone" on the curling court. Onstad is a member of the Madison Toories, a women's curling group.
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Madison Toories

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Toories, the women's auxilliary of the Madison Curling Club, pose with their brooms and stones. Left to right: Frances Sanford, Char...
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United States Women's Curling Association

Date: 02 25 1954
Description: Portrait of Madison's curling team, winner's of the opening bonspiel at Woody Rink. Pictured left to right: Dorothy Woody, Esther Onstad, Helen Lake, Alic...
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West High School Girls' Curling Club

Date: 01 23 1956
Description: Two members of the West High School Girls' Curling Club demonstrate a sweeping technique. At left is Pat Thomson and right, Mary Stumpf.

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