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Photograph

Zeta Beta Tau Christmas Formal

Date: 12 14 1935
Description: A group portrait of the Zeta Beta Tau Christmas formal, 216 Langdon Street, with two girls holding ZBT plaques with its crest.
Photograph

Fuller and Johnson Co. Booth

Date: 07 07 1934
Description: Inside the Fuller and Johnson Co. tent at the Outdoor Expo, rustic scene featuring 4 Caille outboard motors. "Caille the only outboards with gear shift con...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Meat Display

Date: 06 02 1931
Description: Display of Oscar Mayer meat products. The meat, along with fern leaves as decoration, is displayed on a large sheet of paper placed on a table against a wa...
Photograph

West Side Garden Club Holiday House Decorations

Date: 12 08 1953
Description: Christmas holiday tea table centerpiece created by Emma (Mrs. F.M.) Distelhorst of 3630 Spring Trail. The display was sponsored by the West Side Garden Clu...
Postcard

Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
Print

Six O'Clock Club Dinner Menu

Date: 12 17 1900
Description: Front cover and interior of the menu for a Six O'Clock Club dinner on the topic of municipal ownership of Madison utilities. On the cover are two embossed ...
Photograph

West Side Garden Club Flower Show

Date: 10 21 1959
Description: Oak leaves, berries, milkweed pods, and other natural materials are grouped together to make a decorative wall hanging to be used as decoration ideas at th...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Gymnasium Decorated for Junior Prom

Date: 1903
Description: The University of Wisconsin Gymnasium decorated for the junior prom. Lights, fabric drapes, and foliage are strung along the ceiling and walls. Chairs, pla...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

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Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...
Photograph

A Tropical Rainforest

Date: 07 2014
Description: Brugmansia are blooming on large bushes among plants and trees along a brick path in the Bolz Conservatory at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens.
Photograph

Christmas Windows

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Woldenberg's Christmas window at 26-28 East Mifflin Street, featuring a winter scene with female mannequins wearing the latest fashion in coats, hats, glov...

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