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  • Collection: Recollection Wisconsin

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A photograph shows the Quinn family, ca. 1995.

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Dennis Herling, as a young child, stands in the snow holding the rope of a sled. 3805 Paunack Ave may be seen in the background.

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Bill Herling holds a toddler Dennis Herling in front of Herling's Tavern in Madison, Wisconsin. Glenway Golf Course is seen in the background.

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A photographs shows the Herling family picnicking at Reservoir Park in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Headshot of Susie McCormick.

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A promotional image from the City of Madison advertises curbside voting to help voters maintain social distancing (six feet apart) during Election Day on April 7, 2020. The image depicts two election workers wearing plastic face shields, standing in…

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Headshot of Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman.

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Photograph of poet Dana Maya.

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Terry Cohn sits in a coffee shop, "4 Gatos," in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2020.

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Photograph of narrator Mouna Algahaithi.

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Photograph of narrator Chase Frigen playing piano.

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Photograph of narrator Kiana Beaudin.

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Photo of Chris Wagner with Amelia Royko and Richard Davis, who performed at the South Madison Library-Harambee Center

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Photo of Madison Public Library holiday parade float, 1990s

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Chris Wagner with Florentina Richards, The Mitten Lady, who made mittens and hats for kids in South Madison.

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Photo of Chris Wagner dressed up as Miss Marple for Mystery Book Party, 1990s

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Photo of Chris Wagner at book signing in conjunction with Amnesty International, 2012

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Photo of Beatrice Chatman's childhood home on 2000 Fisher Street in Madison, Wisconsin

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Beatrice Chatman at 4 years old, holding a bunny rabbit that she caught.

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Beatrice Chatman and churchgoers at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Johnson St. in 1949. Beatrice is sitting in the front row, far left, and her sister (Jeanette) is sitting next to her on the right.

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Newspaper clipping featuring Beatrice holding a doll that she sewed at the Blessed Martin House (now Multicultural Catholic Center). The dolls were sent to an orphanage in Japan.

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Beatrice Chatman in 1966

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Chuck Lane and his parents, of family business Lane's Bakery in Madison, Wisconsin

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Chuck Lane's parents and grandmother, of family business Lane's Bakery in Madison, Wisconsin

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Chuck Lane's parents, former owners of family business Lane's Bakery in Madison, Wisconsin

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Baker ceramic statue in Lane's Bakery in Madison, Wisconsin

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Photo of David Smith, pastor in Madison, Wisconsin

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David Smith is pictured second row-left in his first grade Franklin Elementary School class photo.

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David Smith is featured in a Wisconsin State Journal article at a protest in May, 1992 over the acquittal in the Rodney King trial.

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Photo of David Smith as a child

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Photo of Greenbush Neighborhood matriarchs. Seated left to right: Olympia Viviani, Rachel Rocca, Mrs. Bormetti, Pieira Trameri. Standing left to right: Anna Lumina, Ceserina Trameri, Elvira Martinelli, Mrs. Odorico, Palmina Martinelli, Mrs. Bradanini

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Photo of Rachel Rocca, an Italian immigrant who built a home in the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Photo of Roca Benedetto, or Benedict Rocca, an Italian immigrant who lived in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Photo of Rachel Rocca, an Italian immigrant in Madison, Wisconsin, with her three children, John, Rose, and James.

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Photo of clothing wring washer found in home built in 1905, in Madison, Wisconsin

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Photo of tombstone of Roca Benedetto, or Benedict Rocca, an Italian immigrant to came to Madison, Wisconsin at the turn of the 20th century and passed away in in 1905. The tombstone was found in the basement of his wife's and family's Greenbush…

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Elizabeth Heinrichs, Kara O'Connor, and Rae Rocca gather to tell the story of 1029 Chandler Street, a house that had been in Rae and Elizabeth's family from 1923-2015, when Kara's family purchased it. Standing left to right: Elizabeth Heinrichs…

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Photo of 1029 Chandler Street, a duplex home built by an Italian immigrant, Rachel Rocca, in the 1920s.

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Promotional web graphic for the Rock en Español radio program on WORT 89.9 FM, Madison, WI

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Every year the students staged a major theatrical performance, in Yiddish. Evelyn Dworetsky (Sylvia’s older sister, left photo) performed in Shalom Aleichem’s “200,000/The Big Lottery” in 1939. Shalom Aleichem is perhaps best know for writing the …

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Every year the students staged a major theatrical performance, in Yiddish. Lawrence Weinstein and Betty (Blachman) Jacobs (photo right) performed in Shalom Aleichem’s “200,000/The Big Lottery” in 1939. Shalom Aleichem is perhaps best known for…

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In 1938 the students performed the “Yiddish King Lear.” This production was not a translation of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” but the title does acknowledge the play’s plot source. The play is set in Lithuania in 1890. Estelle Sweet (L) and Anita…

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The Milwaukee Bakery at 214 S. Murray Street was operated by the Moskowsky family from 1924-1952. The extended family lived in the apartment above the bakery. Each day the bakers prepared fresh breads on the wood fired hearth for sale all across the…

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The Agudas Achim synagogue, founded in 1904 at 827 Mound Street, served Madison’s Jewish Orthodox community. The main floor of the worship sanctuary was reserved for men, and the women occupied the balcony area. The community Hebrew School (Talmud…

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Abe Barash (1913-1987) at work in his shoe repair shop in 1944.

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Abe Barash's original shoe repair storefront (right) at 1107 ½ Regent St. The adjacent barber shop space (left) was later annexed to enlarge the shoe repair operation.

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Abe Barash, standing in the entrance to his repair shop. View looking east on Regent Street. Dolly’s Café is currently (2023) the Hong Kong Café.

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Interior view of Schwartz Pharmacy, around the time it opened in 1930.. Pictured left to right: Sam Schwartz (owner), Dr. A.E. Kuehn (physician), Ann McCorquodale (nurse), Rose Schwartz (spouse to Sam), and Norman Lempert (store clerk and stepbrother…

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Sam Schwartz (right) and Alex Swartz (left) sort through mail sent to the pharmacy by soldiers serving during WWII. The letters and postcards were then shared with the community who would stop by the store to learn first-hand news from the…

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Libby Schwartz (front row far right) , with members of the women’s professional pharmacy fraternity, Kappa Epsilon at UW-Madison in 1960.. Although this organization had all female members, it is officially known as a fraternity. Libby graduated from…

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The Schwartz Pharmacy at the corner of South Park and Mound streets, around 1960, a few years before demolition as part of the urban renewal project. An addition to Meriter Hospital now occupies this site.

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Marc Rosenthal near Arcatao in Chalatenango, El Salvador in January of 2017

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Billy Feitlinger represented Madison's 6th district as an alder in the 1980s. He serve as council president in 1986, when the Common Council voted to formalize a sister city relationship with the town of Arcatao in Chalatenango, El Salvador

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Joe Szwaja was elected to the City Council in a special election in 1986, and ran for reelection in April of 1987. While on the City Council, he continued his support of the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project in new ways

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Joe Szwaja’s experience with the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project in the 1980s has continued to have an influence on his life. For example, in Seattle, where he now lives, he helped to form a kind of grassroots sistering affiliation with Nuevo…

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Detail from Joe Szwaja's (left) campaign literature. Carmen Cruz (right), lived in Szwaja's district and was one of the people who was concerned about Arcato. Cruz worked hard with other activists to contact the US government and convince others to…
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